Posts Tagged ‘New Jersey’
Poetry from New Jersey State Prison
Journalist Kal Wagenheim, editor of Inside Out: Voices From New Jersey State Prison, talks on the radio about teaching writing in a maximum security prison, and why the state’s department of corrections doesn’t want the inmates to have his book.
Read more about Wagenheim’s work here.
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Breaking the Cycle of Re-Arrest and Re-Imprisonment
Click here to read the Huffington Post blog from Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
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West Virginia Addresses Prison Overcrowding
State lawmakers in West Virginia are considering how to alleviate overcrowding in prisons. Their options are to build a new 1,200 bed prison or start exploring alternative community corrections options.
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