A new Medi-Cal program uses psychology principles to incentivize stimulant users to end their dependence on meth in this story shared through the Solutions Journalism Exchange.
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Rahsaan Thomas, co-host of the Ear Hustle podcast, writes about the impact of ‘negative odds’ on his experience of life and his time in the criminal justice system.
Ken Beyer, co-founder of Harbor of Grace Enhanced Recovery Center in Maryland, says the number of police officers and other law enforcement personnel admitted for treatment at his facility has more than tripled in the last two years.
At a medium security prison in Chester, Pennsylvania, selected residents live in single cells with Nordic-like furnishings and order groceries from the outside, in a pilot project aimed at showing how the Scandinavian-style approach to imprisonment could make the U.S. penal system more humane.
Utah, Virginia and Washington allow people to ban themselves from impulsively buying a gun. Many more states could follow their lead.
A number of formerly incarcerated people in Florida could land back behind bars for mistakenly believing they were eligible to vote because of a 2018 ballot initiative that restored voting rights to most Floridians with past convictions.
An Amherst College professor argues that a 1972 Supreme Court ruling that many saw as outlawing the death penalty is effectively helping to preserve it.
California’s historic shuttering of state-run youth prisons is underway, but the local juvenile halls where young people will be transferred are far from the “trauma-informed” alternatives originally envisioned by authorities, a special investigation by The Imprint has found.
The program started by Royal Ramey and Brandon Smith has helped dozens of people find a career after prison. Now they want to expand the effort across California.
As students began returning to campuses around the country this month, one group has found itself left out of the mix. Less than a third of state and federal prisons provide access to postsecondary education.