A program called “You Gotta Believe” offers young people who are aging out of the foster care system a way to remain safe from the dangers of the street. The strategy is called “moral adoption.”
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The death last month of Woodfox, a celebrated prison author who spent 42 years in solitary confinement for the murder of an Angola prison guard, evokes a poignant tribute from a former inmate who claims another prisoner confessed the murder to him.
Strategies that divert justice-involved individuals from prison have long been an important component of justice policy, but they haven’t achieved the systemic changes the nation needs. A new strategy called “deflection” promises to fill the gap.
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 Albuquerque Community Safety Department is the first municipal-level agency in the nation to provide a non-law enforcement response to non-emergency situations. A TCR Special Report finds that the unit, formed just a year ago, has dramatically freed up law enforcement and fire resources.
A TCR Special Report explores the ideas of two youth advocates who have found success in dealing with troubled young people with an innovative program employing “multi-systemic therapy.”
Two cases illustrate the racial disparities of the state’s justice system, writes a former Death Row inmate.
In New York, legislators are weighing a bill to ban drug and alcohol testing of pregnant mothers without informed consent. It’s part of a nationwide effort to curb what critics say is the outsized role played by drug testing companies in the justice system.
Corrections authorities have been making changes to prison environments that challenge the stereotyped image of “cages” for human beings — facilities like Las Colinas Detention Center for Women in San Diego. But leading prison designers tell TCR’s Maria DiLorenzo that the changes haven’t gone far enough.
Incarcerated people of color with mental illness get less treatment and more solitary confinement.