Prison Reform

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  Stephanie Cornett

  

  Obama administration challenges the money bail system: Can people be kept in jail just because they are poor?

  Los Angeles Times

  Reporting from Washington — President Obama’s civil rights lawyers are seeking a potentially far-reaching ruling to hold that the Constitution forbids the common practice of keeping people in jail prior to a trial, even for minor offenses, just because they are too poor to pay for bail. Every day, …

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  Stephanie Cornett

  

  What it's like inside the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies,' America's toughest prison

  Business Insider - Christina Sterbenz

  More than 40 US states run "super-maximum security" prisons for particularly violent or ill-behaved convicts. But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. More widely known as the ADX or the "Alcatraz of the …

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  Stephanie Cornett

  Mar 31, 2015
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  Stephanie Cornett

  

  You'll Never Guess Which Country Boasts the Most Female-Run Businesses on Earth

  Entrepreneur - Geoff Weiss

  Roughly 59 percent of all Jamaican companies are helmed by women, while Norway counts the highest proportion of companies with women serving as the chair of the board. While it should come as no surprise that the number of women in senior and middle management positions has increased significantly …

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  Stephanie Cornett

  

  More treatment, less jails: Incarcerating pregnant women for drug use is dangerous, not compassionate

  Salon - By Katie McDonough

  North Carolina is currently considering a measure that would jail women who use drugs during their pregnancies “if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug.” The measure is virtually identical to a Tennessee law passed in 2014, which Republican state Sen. Brent Jackson cited …

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  Stephanie Cornett

  

  Pigeon.ly, A Startup Focused On Serving The U.S. Prison Population, Joins Y Combinator

  TechCrunch - Kim-Mai Cutler

  Ever since he was a teenager, Frederick Hutson has had a knack for business. When he was 19, he built a window-tinting business that he then turned around and sold for $50,000. At 21, he saw his friends struggling with an illegal marijuana business and figured out how to efficiently traffic the drug …