How can we resolve uncertainties and policy conflicts to ensure that former prisoners can successfully find jobs and states can reduce incarceration costs?
Archive for the “United States” Category
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Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice reform, employment, Malcom Young, prisons, reentry
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In recent remarks on shifting resources in the U.S. "war on drugs," President Obama echoed many of the strides made in Portugal since that European nation decriminalized drugs in 2001.
Posted in: Europe, Health, United States
Topics: Barack Obama, drug policy, drug users, Europe, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kathleen Kingsbury, Portugal, public health, United States, video
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Whatever happens in Washington (or Tucson) does not constitute the sum total of our democracy. Democracy happens in unadorned meeting rooms on quiet corners in New Orleans East and beyond.
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“Resilient” is not an adjective typically used to describe black men. The statistics facing African American males (and women) often seem insurmountable.
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When invited to attend a conference on improving the lives of black men and boys, I hesitated, not because of my lack of support for the issue but because of the memories I wanted to leave behind.
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In this interview Ian Inaba, filmmaker and cofounder of Citizen Engagement Laboratory, explains how underrepresented constituencies can use new media to amplify their voices for social justice.
Posted in: Media & Arts, Rights & Equality, United States
Topics: Ann Beeson, DREAM Act, ian inaba, new media
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At a time when the underachievement of black boys in the United States can only be described as a national crisis, there is finally some good news.
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Many observers wonder at the apparent disconnect between American support for justice abroad and President Obama’s determination to "look forward not backward" at home.
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A fifteen-year-old filmmaker talks about his achievements, dreams, and responsibilities toward his generation.
Posted in: Education & Youth, Rights & Equality, United States
Topics: black male achievement, black men & boys, Jordan Coleman
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Richard Holbrooke was tireless, remembering every detail of a negotiation years later or even a sentence of an article that went his way, and the very few that did not.
Posted in: Europe, Justice, United States
Topics: Balkans, Balkans war, Belgrade, Bosnia, Dayton Peace agreeement, Holbrooke, Karadzic, Laura Silber, Milosevic, Serbia, Yugoslavia