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  • Roanoke initiative shifts from arresting addicts to helping them

    July 21, 2016 |

    The Roanoke Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    In one year, the drug overdoses in Roanoke, VA have taken 12 lives and another 76 have overdosed but survived. The police department developed a new program called the Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative, designed to provide rehabilitation without arrest for those who seek it. The program simulates the successful national effort to help drug abusers instead of incarcerating them.

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  • In Kenya, HIV-Positive Prisoners Combat Stigma, Trauma With Support Groups' Help

    July 13, 2016 |

    Global Press Journal |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Among the challenges for HIV-positive inmates are lack of food that meets their dietary needs and susceptibility to tuberculosis. The support groups, part of an HIV prevention and care program active in all the nation’s prisons, mitigate those challenges and create awareness about HIV prevention and care.

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  • As Numbers Swell at a Nepalese Prison, Inmate-Leaders Help Maintain Order

    July 13, 2016 |

    Global Press Journal |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok

    In an institution with a limited number of guards and an increased number of inmates, the Naike settle disputes, prevent fights and organize activities. For their services, these leaders receive reduced sentences.

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  • New CSU Program Gives Ex-Convicts Support to Earn College Degrees

    July 06, 2016 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Project Rebound will create an office where formerly incarcerated students can receive tutoring, counseling on academics and financial aid. Seven California State University campuses are busy this summer putting the finishing touches on this program.

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  • Meet the Full-Service Social Media Secretary for Prisoners

    June 29, 2016 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Toledo, Ohio

    "A social secretary for people who have been deprived of the forms of communication that are now ubiquitous almost everywhere except for prisons," Renea Royster is part of a network of organizations (including Pigeonly, Infolincs, Inmatefone, and Phone Donkey) helping prisoners keep in touch with people on the outside.

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  • In Search of the Felon-Friendly Workplace

    June 25, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    One of the hardest parts of being in prison is not knowing what to do when you get out. By pitching ex-cons as good for business, the Eastern District of Missouri’s prison-to-work program has become a model for inmate re-entry nationwide.

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  • Focused crime strategy finds early success. Can it work in Milwaukee?

    June 18, 2016 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    A law-enforcement strategy known as the "focused deterrence" approach involves identifying people most at risk to commit or to be victimized by crime — often the same individuals — and hosts meetings where they are offered resources to break the cycle, or, face serious legal consequences. The approach has worked so well in places like Kansas City, Boston, and High Point, that Milwaukee is looking at how to replicate the results.

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  • Houston's solution to the homeless crisis: Housing — and lots of it

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The second part in a series of stories about Seattle's response to their homeless crisis. Here, officials look to the example of Houston to create housing options for homeless veterans and former convicts.

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  • A tale of two states: Wisconsin trails Colorado as both cut solitary confinement

    June 12, 2016 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Solitary confinement has long been shown to exacerbate mental health problems and is considered to be inhumane for long periods of time. Colorado is taking steps to reduce the amount of time prisoners spend in isolation, and Wisconsin is looking to do the same.

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  • Pathways to Peace: 11 lessons learned

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland has struggled through the years to reduce youth violence. But important lessons have been learned, here and elsewhere. City officials say they are factoring those lessons into their latest plans to reduce violence among young men in the city.

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