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Video column: Advice to help ill relative in prison
This weeks column focuses on what to do if a loved one is dying in prison. I have provided some resources regarding medical release and grief counseling for families facing this sad situation. If you...
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Writing letters to support prison closures
Camp Gabriels in Brighton, N.Y., is a minimum security prison 15 miles northwest of Lake Placid, NY. (AP Photo/New York State Office of General Services, HO) The New York Initiative for Children of...
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Event: Segregation and Solitary Confinement–Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
Illustrative purposes only More than 25,000 people are confined in solitary confinement in the United States. An additional 50,000 – 80,000 are kept in restrictive segregation units, many of them in...
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Education grant available for low income women and children
A Title I resource reading and math teacher, right, works with her third grade students. Title I, which provides grants for low-income schools. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) The Patsy Takemoto Mink Education...
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Photo of the week: Afghan prison families
(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) Jamila, left, plays on a seesaw with children of other female inmates on the prison yard of Pul-e Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. Jamila, age 7 in the photo, and her...
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Photo of the week: Abuzz about green jobs opportunities after prison
Gerald Whitehead holds a comb of honey from one of the hives at Sweet Beginnings in Chicago. Sweet Beginnings, a program that offers transitional jobs for formerly incarcerated men and women to help...
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Poem: “Choices….”
Michelle Rodriguez with her husband Through the years I’ve seen it all I’ve seen his rise And I’ve seen his fall Jack of all trades, master of the moment Money was good he was on top of the game he had...
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Web radio: Fundraising and survival strategies for your nonprofits
The Associated Press (used with permission) UPDATE: The show will be co-hosted by Cee Flowers, the founder of The Prison Wives Movement. Nonprofits have it tough during these lean economic times. The...
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Listen now: Oklahoma’s prisons packed with women
The director of Women Behind Bars, Amina Benalioulhaj, prepares the camera for a shoot in an Oklahoma prison. To her is an incarcerated mother and her visiting children. (Photo Credit: Sarah Warmker)...
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Troy Davis execution highlights disparity in justice system
A vigil for death row inmate Troy Davis in front of the White House on the eve of his execution. (photo credit: AP) At 11:08 on September 21, 2011 Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia....
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