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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

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

By Andrew Bilodeau | andrew.bilodeau@yale.edu For a week in 1842, Fred A. Packard, a public intellectual famous for his advocacy for...