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When we talk about America’s policy of mass incarceration, it’s impossible to ignore the decline of mental health facilities. Locking up the mentally ill...
Caitlin Curley is a junior at Colorado State University studying journalism with a minor in criminology. She works as Digital Managing Editor of CSU's student newspaper. Caitlin writes about the criminal justice system and mass incarceration for GenFKD.
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When we talk about America’s policy of mass incarceration, it’s impossible to ignore the decline of mental health facilities. Locking up the mentally ill...
Reclassifying minor crimes is proving to be an effective way to combat America’s mass incarceration crisis, but some additional measures are needed to ensure the...
Our current period of mass incarceration is locking up more people than ever and there is a real case to be made that the resulting...
Our country’s shockingly high mass incarceration rates are not only a blight on American values, they come at an exorbitant cost to taxpayers. Missing...
The comprehensive failure of mass incarceration has been steadily gaining publicity across the United States, giving hope to the idea that massive reform is...
Police officers in schools are supposed to be keeping students safe, but recent incidents have brought into question whether law enforcement has a place...
“Making a Murderer,” a 10-part documentary series released on Netflix last November, has exposed some glaring flaws in our criminal justice system to the...
When 59-year-old Lee Wollard heard banging noises and his teenage daughter’s cries for help from her bedroom, he took his .357 into her room...
The average prison sentence in the United States is almost twice the length as that in Australia and almost five times the length compared...
As millennials, we were told to “Just Say No” to drugs while we saw “D.A.R.E. to resist drugs and violence” posters in the hallways of...