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Caitlyn Greene

The Bureau of Prison’s systematically unfair treatment of D.C. Code offenders

On Feb. 3, 2022, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia filed Blades v. Garland in the U.S. District Court for the...

Samuel Disario

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...

Danielle Davis

Rebranding the school to prison pipeline: From classroom to Zoom room

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, students across the country adapted to online, distance learning—a reality that...

Samantha Hall

Redesigning youth justice

On Sept. 30, 2021, President Biden proclaimed October 2021 as National Youth Justice Action Month. In this proclamation, he specified...

Jackie Solomon

Solitary confinement reform is only for men, apparently

In March 2017, three male prisoners sued the Louisiana Department of Public Safety Corrections (LDOC) and the wardens at the Louisiana...

Kaitlyn Wallace

Call for reform: Improving access to phones in jail and prison populations

While COVID-19 has drastically affected the jail and prison populations across the country, the pandemic has brought one benefit to the...

Ben Crawford

Prison gerrymandering: A ripple effect of mass incarceration

Across the country, felons are subjected to varying degrees of voter disenfranchisement depending on where they are incarcerated. In all...

Apoorva Deshmukh

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) and Relevant State Statutes in Maryland, Virginia

In 2001, there were approximately 2,100,146 persons incarcerated throughout the United States, with 1,324,464 individuals in federal or...

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