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A New Way to Assess the Far-Reaching Impacts of Mass Incarceration
Mar 11 2022
By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass ImprisonmentDespite growing attention to the problem of mass incarceration, we are still only beginning to capture its far-reaching harms. Scholars and activists have revealed mass incarceration’s impact on the individuals ta
Why Place Matters to Reentry Experiences
Mar 09 2022
By Andrea Leverentz, author of Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes ReentryIn October 2014, a bridge that connected Long Island in Boston Harbor to Moon Island — as well as Squantum Peninsula in Quincy, Massachusetts — was abruptly closed by Boston’s mayor. For over 80 years, Long Island had bee
The Quiet Revolution of Women Experiencing Maternal Incarceration
Mar 07 2022
By Geniece Crawford Mondé, author of This Is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison SystemIn the wake of global protests for justice in the summer of 2020, a broader conversation about the impact of this country’s criminal legal system and its ties to systemic inequality wa