The criminal justice system is facing nuanced challenges while caring for prisoners and staff members. The challenges are exacerbated by inadequacies that have always been present — we must now confront them head on.
In 2020, however, the scammer is no longer represented by some seedy individual bombarding your Instagram or spam emails. The scammer is now your government, your health care provider and even your university.
If you’re one of the millions of people who has watched the prison-centric TV show “Orange is the New Black,” you might have a deeper understanding of what it means to be in prison, but you might...
Regardless of how one comes to receive it, an education from an institution like Boston University is a tremendous privilege. Like many tremendous privileges, it’s afforded to very few people. What’s...
A group of community leaders and scholars spoke on a panel Tuesday at Boston University’s School of Theology about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its link to mass incarceration.
The panel examines...
A little over one-and-a-half-million men and women lived in American state and federal prisons at the end of 2013. This statistic includes almost 3 percent of the country’s black males and just...
