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Prison Overpopulation, Alternative Sentencing, and Immigrant Deportation
By Kyle T. Green Prison Overpopulation With the issue of prison overpopulation on the nation’s collective mind, a closer look at alternative sentencing trends may help to provide answers. Since… more →
Changing Lives, Changing Minds
Prison Overpopulation, Alternative Sentencing, and Immigrant Deportation
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wrote 1 month ago: By Kyle T. Green Prison Overpopulation With the issue of prison overpopulation on the nation’s … more →
Three ways literature can help criminal offenders make better decisions
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wrote 4 months ago: By Jack Meyers As alternative sentencing gains in popularity, many will wonder just how this form of … more →
Woman of the Year embraces alternative sentencing
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wrote 4 months ago: Judge Bettina Borders, of Bristol County Juvenile Court, was named 2012 SouthCoast Woman of the Year … more →
Rehabilitation through reading: an opportunity to self-reflect and gain perspective
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wrote 5 months ago: By Sara Dawkins While reading, you use your imagination to visualize a story’s characters as if they … more →
A creative writing community project brings people together
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wrote 5 months ago: Lessons: Stories that connect from Stories Connect Lessons cover By Sally Flint People’s lives have … more →
Convicted Reading: a relationship between literature and jail
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wrote 7 months ago: Listen to Dr. David Sherman of Brandeis University interview Changing Lives Through Literature co-fo … more →
Positive Social Implications of Reading
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wrote 8 months ago: By Joshua John Brazil’s prison system has come up with an innovative program to shorten the sentence … more →
Zeiterion's Court Program Shows Power of Art to Change
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wrote 9 months ago: By Bettina Borders and Estella Rebeiro One day several years ago, Katherine Knowles, the director of … more →
A Guide to Prison Libraries
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wrote 9 months ago: By Jeffrey Roe Most people intending to become librarians often have strong memories associated with … more →
How Literature Could Help Criminal Offenders
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wrote 9 months ago: By Sandy Atwood “The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence, and crime is welded to … more →
Changing Lives Through Literature: A Sentencing Option that Works (Part 2)
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wrote 10 months ago: By Tam Neville After lunch the group heard a presentation on “Research: Does it work?” led by Ron P. … more →
Changing Lives Through Literature: A Sentencing Option that Works (Part 1)
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wrote 11 months ago: By Tam Neville This program is a great experiment about what democracy can mean. All masks, roles, h … more →
Gender Matters
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wrote 1 year ago: By Tara Knoll Alternative sentencing works to treat offenders as individuals. A crucial part of th … more →
When Justice Isn't Just
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wrote 1 year ago: By Annie Bolthrunis, editor “The United States imprisons more people than any other nation in the wo … more →
The High Cost of Low-Level Offenders
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wrote 1 year ago: By: Annie Bolthrunis, editor After my last post regarding CLTL-type programs from people in treatmen … more →
Tara Knoll's Insights on Affliction (CLTL)
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wrote 1 year ago: by: Tara Knoll When I participated in the last session of Professor Waxler’s fall-cycle … more →
Important Announcement From Middlesex Superior Court!
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wrote 1 year ago: Changing Lives Through Literature Middlesex Superior Court Probation Department Judge Kathe T … more →
A Reaction to Changing Lives Through Literature
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wrote 1 year ago: By Tara Knoll On November 2, I sat in on a session of Changing Lives Through Literature led b … more →
Unfortunate News for WIPN: "Barbarians At The Gates"
wrote 2 years ago: The following is a release entitled “Barbarians at the Gates” from Writers In Prison Net … more →
