Ivy League university donates 52 laptops to college students in N.J. prisons
About 300 incarcerated undergraduate students, who didn’t previously have access to laptops, will use the computers.
The New York Times22d
What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons
This is no accident: Prison ... school, where an English teacher introduced him to Black studies and a football coach noticed his athleticism. By senior year, his dismal sophomore 0.6 G.P.A ...
Argus-Press23d
School teacher gets prison term for sex acts with student
CORUNNA – A teacher who engaged in sexual acts with one of her students was sentenced Friday to seven years, one month to 15 years in prison. In December, 40-year-old Tasha N. Fernet was found ...
Forbes23d
Productive Activities In Federal Prison Yield Great Results
Dog Programs like Positive Paws Dog Training Program at FCI Thomson (IL) give prisoners a canine ... [+] partner and life lessons. When individuals enter the Federal Bureau of Prisons, they often ...
The Conversation25d
Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’
University of California, Santa Barbara provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is ...
MPR News26d
Celebration and criticism follow Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’s prison sentence commutation
Peltier has been housed in a maximum security prison in Florida for the past several years. She said calling or writing has also been difficult. She, like many others, was surprised at the ...
WKXW26d
Prison for NJ school bus owner who hired criminal, unqualified drivers
The owner of a school bus company that hired dangerously unqualified drivers and operated unsafe buses has been sentenced to prison, state Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced. In Superior ...
The Conversation26d
Many more older people are leaving prison and face unmet needs for housing and health care − as well as a tangle of groups trying to help
Upward of 95% of incarcerated people will eventually leave prison, either on parole or because they’ve completed their sentence. And the older they are when released, the harder it can be to ...
MPR News27d
‘A champion’: Man who covered Leonard Peltier’s trial praises his release from prison
Peltier, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1977 for the murder of two FBI agents, will be leaving prison and heading home in February to finish his sentence. While law ...
PM NEWS Nigeria27d
Ekweremadu’s wife regains freedom from UK prison
Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has been released from a UK prison and returned to Nigeria ... afternoon paper in Lagos and its environs, ...
The Washington Post28d
Tech companies want teens to use their apps. Pinterest says not in school.
As millions of teenagers return to school this month after their winter breaks, Pinterest chief executive Bill Ready argues that there is one thing they shouldn’t bring to class: their cellphones.