A San Francisco pilot program called Transit Ambassadors uses uniformed civilians to patrol the city’s BART transit system, reducing the pressure on police.
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Community-based violence intervention may be the most dangerous job in the struggle to contain America’s gun epidemic, according to a recent survey—and the least protected.
Education often plays a big role in clemency decisions. Should it?
The Tap In Center in St. Louis County is one example of legal help that supports underserved people with open warrants. It has saved hundreds from going to jail, so why aren’t more counties copying it?
In the first month after release from incarceration, Habakkuk Nickens gets 10 job offers, and a driver’s license, and sees his daughter off to her prom.
A former incarceree describes his emotional reconciliation with family after 10 years behind bars.
Generally, at 18, a person can participate in activities that require a certain amount of cognitive independence. But some activities that can directly harm others and oneself have a higher age threshold, writes Ashwini Tambe in an essay for The Conversation.
The restoration of the “Second Chance Pell Grants” has turned a South Carolina facility into a magnet for young inmates pursuing a higher education — and a chance for a new life when they get out, writes prison mentor Khalil Scott.
Where other employers look at former prisoners and see only a risk of re-offending, former prison chaplain Kalen McAllister, owner of a nonprofit St. Louis, Mo., bakery, sees multifaceted individuals on the road to a new and productive future.
Sixty percent of gun casualties are suicides; yet on many campuses, mass shooter drills are mandatory while suicide prevention training doesn’t exist — in the midst of a youth mental health crisis. Now students like Meera Varma are stepping in to fill the gap.