Cruel and unusual or adequate healthcare: Looking at the circuit split
In 1976, the United States Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision where the Court interpreted the Eighth Amendment’s “cruel and...
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Grace Schneider
- Mar 9
- 3 min
How cognitive behavioral therapy reduces crime
Almost 50% of inmates suffer from some form of mental health issue that becomes exacerbated when prison walls restrict their freedom....
Gaia Lodovici
- Feb 26
- 3 min
Book censorship in prisons
“The Coloring Book Looney Tunes,” “Learn to Draw Disney Winnie the Pooh,” and “Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Catalog” may sound like...
Jaxzia Perez
- Feb 24
- 3 min
The foster care-to-prison pipeline: A road to incarceration
In 2020, the Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the United States Department of Health and...
Sarah Pape
- Dec 24, 2022
- 4 min
'Some things cannot be fixed': Rikers Island and pretrial detention
Kalief Browder was only 16 years old when he was arrested and incarcerated. He was held in solitary confinement for almost two years out...
Bennett Nuss
- Nov 13, 2022
- 3 min
Legal tracking: Blanket pardons - A revolutionary policy idea or merely missing the point?
On Oct. 6, 2022, President Biden issued the following proclamation on the White House website: “Acting Pursuant to the grant of authority...
Lucy Delves
- Jun 3, 2022
- 3 min
Pregnant in prison? What’s next for you? Abortion access for the incarcerated
There are over 200,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States. Thousands of these women are pregnant. Many persons become...
Brianna Long
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
A pattern of bias in PATTERN
The First Step Act, implemented on Dec. 21, 2018, required the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “develop a risk needs assessment system to...
Siena Richardson
- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
The high cost of parenting while incarcerated
The moment a parent comes in contact with the criminal legal system, their entire family is impacted. As a result of an arrest alone, a...
W. Connor Smith
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Locked up and left to die: Addiction in America’s prisons
Mass incarceration is an institution as American as apple pie. In 2019, roughly 2.1 million people were incarcerated in the United...
Samuel Disario
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
How to ensure every trans person has adequate access to trans-affirming care while incarcerated
On Aug. 16, 2016, Stacy Lorraine Naber, a transgender woman, was found dead in her cell in a mens prison facility at Dade Correctional...
Bennett Nuss
- Feb 19, 2022
- 4 min
Legal tracking: Concepcion v. United States
The Supreme Court heard oral argument this term in a case that could substantively change how low-risk prisoners apply for resentencing...
Samantha Hall
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
Redesigning youth justice
On Sept. 30, 2021, President Biden proclaimed October 2021 as National Youth Justice Action Month. In this proclamation, he specified...
Annemarie Gregoire
- Jul 23, 2021
- 2 min
The criminalization of mental illness
The criminalization of mental illness has become increasingly common in the United States. A disproportionate number of mentally-ill...
Madison Howard
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
Second Chances: A Look at D.C.’s Second Look Act
Photo Source: https://www.bu.edu/history/files/2012/04/Law-Scales.jpg Prisoners who committed offenses in their youths are finally...
Melissa Respeto
- Jan 27, 2021
- 40 min
Guilty By Association: Why Non-Violent Felons Should Not Be in the Same Category as Violent Felons
Florida Statute § 790.23 prohibits the issuance of a concealed weapons license, as well as the purchase and possession of a gun by a person
Aaron Earlywine
- Nov 13, 2020
- 7 min
The Punishment Begets the Crime
Toledo, Ohio, home of the Rockets and known as the Glass City, hugs both sides of the Maumee River. Toledo is a relatively large city...
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