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    ICE Immune to Following Public Health Policy During the Pandemic
    • Sep 26, 2021
    • 8 min

    ICE Immune to Following Public Health Policy During the Pandemic

    How the coronavirus pandemic has harmed immigrants in detention centers, violating the human rights to life and asylum, and what this...
    Marching for Public Health, Not In Spite of It
    • Sep 26, 2021
    • 8 min

    Marching for Public Health, Not In Spite of It

    By Isabella Marin | isabella.marinquintero@yale.edu A crowd of protesters facing the police in New York City. Image courtesy of Johannes...
    • Sep 26, 2021
    • 7 min

    Equality and Fairness for Some: Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The challenges, changes, and unexpected benefits to elementary education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. By Maia Decker | ...
    • Sep 26, 2021
    • 7 min

    Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Impact of Coronavirus on Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) By Astri Doub | astri.doub@yale.edu At the...
    A Hidden Population: Navigating COVID-19 with Homeless Youth
    • Sep 26, 2021
    • 7 min

    A Hidden Population: Navigating COVID-19 with Homeless Youth

    By Faith Evanson ⎸ faith.evanson@yale.edu A “hidden population”— this is how many describe the community of homeless youth in...
     Human Rights and the Education System of the United States
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 6 min

    Human Rights and the Education System of the United States

    By McKenna Christmas | mckenna.christmas@yale.edu This article aims to give a general overview of the human rights concerns within our...
    Education Programs in Prisons: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustaining a Program — And Then What?
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 13 min

    Education Programs in Prisons: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustaining a Program — And Then What?

    Driven largely by institutional barriers and notions of worthiness, education programs in prisons are vulnerable and controversial....
     Making a Profit from Incarceration — The Human Rights Concern of Contract Prisons
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 6 min

    Making a Profit from Incarceration — The Human Rights Concern of Contract Prisons

    By McKenna Christmas | mckenna.christmas@yale.edu The country was first introduced to for-profit or “contract” prisons as a response to...
    Prisons Never Worked
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 12 min

    Prisons Never Worked

    By Andrew Bilodeau | andrew.bilodeau@yale.edu For a week in 1842, Fred A. Packard, a public intellectual famous for his advocacy for...
    Obstruction of the American Voter
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 7 min

    Obstruction of the American Voter

    By Andrew Bilodeau | andrew.bilodeau@yale.edu The Voting Rights Act of 1965, also known as the VRA, is commonly considered the most...
    • Oct 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    Gun Control: A Matter of Life, Death, and Fundamental Rights

    By Nellie Conover-Crockett | nellie.conovercrockett@yale.edu On February 14th, 2018, Nikolas Cruz went on a rampage, firing wildly at...

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