Social sector leaders can encourage innovation by fostering three productive mindsets.
Naming the Mindsets of Innovation
Overdose Deaths Likely to Fall for First Time Since 1990
Health officials and scientists warn U.S. is far from defeating drug epidemicOC–Overdose Deaths Likely to Fall for First Time Since 1990
Kim Kardashian Visits White House To Announce ‘Second Chance’ Ride-Share Program For Former Prisoners
Since the passage of the First Step Act in December, I’ve been speaking with people coming home from prison and learning about the challenges they are facing. While I have been able to offer support to some of the individuals I have met, the obstacles to success are an everyday struggle for thousands and more needs to be done.
Incarceration vs. education: America spends more on its prison system than it does on public schools – and California is the worst
The U.S. spends more on prisons and jails than it does on educating children – and 15 states spend at least $27,000 more per prisoner than they do per student, according to a new report. Americans account for 4.4 percent of the global population, but 22 percent of the world’s prison population.
At state prison, inmates aim to improve lives as students
Kimberly Piper spent the majority of her career teaching middle schoolers. About four years ago, she was looking for a change. She found the Department of Corrections was looking for an English teacher for Granite State High School, a micro school district that operates within the prison walls. JR–At state prison, inmates aim to improve lives as students
‘I Don’t Want to See Him Fail’: A Firm Takes a Chance on Ex-Inmates
Progressive Coating of Chicago, seeking workers in a tight labor market, confronts heart-rending dilemmas
Auditor concerned that communication issues hurt foster children’s education
Foster children often bounce from school to school, suffer chronic absenteeism, experience disciplinary problems, and drop out more frequently than their peers. Yet poor communication between state child welfare administrators and local schools and conflicting regulations create significant hurdles and educational delays for abused and neglected children as they are moved from foster home to foster home, according to a new state auditor’s report.
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
Who Belongs in Prison?
A truly just system must do more than protect the rights of the innocent; it must also respect the humanity of the guilty.
Bail Remains Sticking Point in Talks on Criminal-Justice Overhaul in New York
State lawmakers are working through disagreements over how to reduce or eliminate the use of money bail as part of a broad overhaul of New York’s criminal-justice system they hope to finalize this week.