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Aug 22, 202113 min read
Education Programs in Prisons: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustaining a Program — And Then What?
Driven largely by institutional barriers and notions of worthiness, education programs in prisons are vulnerable and controversial....
Aug 22, 20216 min read
Making a Profit from Incarceration — The Human Rights Concern of Contract Prisons
By McKenna Christmas | mckenna.christmas@yale.edu The country was first introduced to for-profit or “contract” prisons as a response to...
Aug 22, 202112 min read
Prisons Never Worked
By Andrew Bilodeau | andrew.bilodeau@yale.edu For a week in 1842, Fred A. Packard, a public intellectual famous for his advocacy for...
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