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What cities can learn from New Haven's fight to rein in gang violence: Seeking Solutions

John Caniglia

March 24, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

Providing positive interventions reduces gun violence among struggling youths. In New Haven, Connecticut, the Project Longevity program offers social services, treatment, housing, and counseling to those who typically only face crackdowns by law enforcement. The program aims to assist and help gang members find a way out of violence, supported in the long-term by funding approved by the CT state legislature.

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GPS monitoring servings its purpose in Minnesota

Beatriz Alvarado

March 20, 2016 |

Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Ramsey, Minnesota

Project Remand, a private nonprofit, was established in 1973 to identify high-risk offenders. Late in 2012, the nonprofit launched a pilot program for GPS monitoring of domestic violence defendants.

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How to Go Straight

Shabnam Grewal

March 19, 2016 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United Kingdom

How to break a cycle of recidivism? Individual ex-prisoners share their own stories of how they have recovered from addiction and lives of crime, gotten their lives on track, and ultimately broken the cycle and stayed out of prison.

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Actor's Gang: How Tim Robbins has cut reoffending rates

Kate Bissell

March 14, 2016 |

BBC |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

For many offenders, prison can be a tense, divisive, and anger-inducing environment, fueling the negative influences that landed them there in the first place and leading to high recidivism rates. Actor Tim Robbins - who once famously portrayed a prisoner himself - started a program called The Actors Gang to bring theater to inmates as an outlet for emotion and expression, breaking down barriers between former gang members and helping individuals to process their troubles.

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The San Francisco Jail That Started a School

Rob Waters

March 10, 2016 |

Bright Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Five Keys Charter School, established in 2003, works in various California prisons to provide education and job training to inmates. Since its founding, Five Keys has awarded 684 high school diplomas to inmates in custody and 712 more to people who completed their coursework at a network of community sites scattered around San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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Youth Program Points To Ways D.C. Can Be ‘Far More Creative' Against Crime

Matthew S. Schwartz

February 25, 2016 |

American University Radio (WAMU) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Fort Meade, Maryland

Paying at-risk people to stay out of trouble is the most controversial part of a new D.C. crime bill that also proposes counseling and other services to prevent repeat offenses. But a similar program is already in use in D.C., with the blessing of the District’s top prosecutor, giving nonviolent juvenile offenders a second chance. (2nd of a 3 part series)

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An unprecedented experiment in mass forgiveness

Rob Kuznia

February 08, 2016 |

The Washington Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

In California, once a national innovator in draconian policies to get tough on crime, voters and lawmakers are now innovating in the opposite direction, adopting laws that have released tens of thousands of inmates and are preventing even more from going to prison in the first place.

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The Unlikely Rise of Restorative Justice in a Conservative Upstate New York County

Mark Obbie

December 29, 2015 |

Slate |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Batavia, New York

In a conservative upstate town in New York, an early advocate of what is now known as restorative justice pioneered the idea of finding alternatives to incarceration that address root causes of crimes and offer victims larger roles in the process. He did this by engaging different people across law enforcement, the community and social services. That built broad support, but the programs have struggled to maintain these innovations or make them permanent after the departure of the visionary founder.

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Police Officers, Former Inmates Break Bread, Build Bridges

Brandis Friedman

December 22, 2015 |

WTTW-PBS |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

At monthly lunch meetings, former inmates get together with Chicago Police officers to make connections outside of law enforcement situations and try to understand one another better. The Building Bridges, Building Connections initiative fosters honest dialogue through facilitated discussions that touch on all kinds of topics based in individuals' personal experiences. It's not an easy path, but it has continued for four years and many participants say they wish the meetings lasted longer.

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Murder in the Magic City: The Crime Fighters

Nick Patterson

December 17, 2015 |

Weld for Birgmingham |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Authorities have found a strategy to curb the homicide rate, The Violence Reduction Initiative, which has been scaled in other cities. This initiative calls in likely offenders and has them meet with the police face-to-face.

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