Prison
Notes From ‘The Cut’: An American Prison
Lieutenant Scott greeted us at the door with a smile as Sergeant Davis followed closely behind. We were a group of eight nursing students with our instructor, making a sort of “educational visit” to the Jessup Correctional Institute, A.K.A. “The Cut,” which houses the only women’s prison in Maryland.
Chloe Lawyer
October 21, 2015
Pigs Can’t Fly! LAPD Denied Funding Amid Community Protest
In a rare move, the Los Angeles Police Department was recently denied funding at a neighborhood council meeting in South Los Angeles amid applause from youth, community members, and activists.
Julia Wallace
October 7, 2015
Rhetoric vs Reality in Obama’s Prison Reform
Since July, Obama has made a series of declarations about the need to reform the U.S. prison system. But given his record on incarceration over the past six-and-a-half years, what change can we expect the president to offer now to the 2.2 million people locked up across the country?
Robert Belano
August 25, 2015