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  • This 24-year-old lawsuit could radically alter public education in North Carolina

    October 15, 2018 |

    Scalawag |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Twenty years ago, five, poor, rural counties sued the state of North Carolina for failing to provide students with a good education, and won. In 1997 the Chief Justice Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the case known as Leandro v. State. However, the decision wasn’t really enforced by the government, and until 2017 a court appointed agency was hired to investigate the state. “Leandro sets the bar but you still need to have elected officials, school officials and court officials willing to uphold it,”

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  • Seattle is the leader in worker protection laws. What can Philly learn as it considers a ‘fair workweek'?

    October 15, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In an effort to achieve a true "fair work week," Philadelphia looks to Seattle's worker protection laws - which are among the best in the country. Seattle enforces a strict secure-scheduling policy, which ensures workers are compensated if an employer changes their schedule without fair warning.

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  • A small state with big ideas on rehabilitating female prisoners

    October 14, 2018 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    Across the United States, women statistically receive a higher rate of disciplinary tickets for minor infractions compared to their male counterparts. In Vermont, however, where corrections falls under the Department of Human Services, employees of the correctional facilities are trained in gender-informed practices to better suit their responses to women and men offenders.

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  • Changing the environment in Iowa's prisons to change results for women Audio icon

    October 14, 2018 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mitchelville, Iowa

    The Iowa Correctional Institution for Women has reformed how inmates are treated, adapting approaches informed by gender and past trauma. A new campus provides private counseling suites and a mental health unit, larger cells with light controls and a visitation area with play space and a garden so women can engage with their children. Disciplinary policies have also shifted toward building women up for returning to society rather than automatic discipline for small infractions.

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  • The Crime Machine, Part II

    October 12, 2018 |

    Gimlet Media |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    CompStat seemed like a miracle of technology and data when it was rolled out in New York City in the 1990s. Crime dropped as police leadership demanded precincts report every crime and what they were doing about it at weekly meetings where they were pressured to conform to this new system. But this also resulted in police distorting actual crime data to avoid reporting crimes in their districts and the push for increased police activity resulted in cops targeting minorities for minor offenses.

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  • The Crime Machine, Part I

    October 11, 2018 |

    Gimlet Media |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The creation of CompStat fostered a huge drop in crime rates in New York City by the 1990s. The idea came from an odd and obsessive transit cop was to track every single crime daily in every precinct and use that data to systematically go after everything from murders to low-level crimes once ignored by police. It was a drastic shift in the way NYPD worked and was credited with making the city far safer, but was also flawed.

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  • The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System

    October 11, 2018 |

    Texas Monthly |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    An unlikely relationship between Frances Jalet, an attorney, and Fred Cruz, an inmate, led to some of the most historic rulings against the Texas Department of Corrections. Jalet became a plaintiff in one of the suits, and alongside two dozen other inmates, called the Eight Hoe squad, they drafted a lawsuit. Despite targeted attacks against Jalet and the inmates by prison leadership, they won in the courts. In 1980, a federal judge declared that the Texas Department of Corrections was operating unconstitutionally.

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  • To Help Immigrants Feel Safer Around Police, Some Churches Start Issuing IDs

    October 11, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The Archdiocese of Baltimore is set to start issuing parishioner ID cards in a program modeled off a similar one in Texas. The ID cards include a name, address, and birth date and are meant for undocumented immigrants to feel safer around law enforcement.

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  • How to grapple with soaring world population? An answer from down south

    October 10, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Botswana

    Botswana stands out for its rapidly falling fertility rate; a complex set of factors, including increased access to comprehensive education and contraception, is driving the falling rate. The country's family planning programs are far-reaching, providing services in even rural areas of Botswana, and giving women more control of their reproductive health and choices.

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  • Banning refugees from having jobs hurts, not helps, local workers

    October 09, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Turkey

    Host governments tend to be wary of allowing refugees to move freely and work legally. However, integrating refugees into the labor market as quickly as possible reduces the concentration of newcomers in the informal sector, benefiting both locals and refugees in the long run.

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