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  • Čeští experti pomáhají džihádistům zpět do společnosti. Spolupracují s věznicemi napříč Evropou

    November 28, 2019 |

    HlídacíPes.org |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Czech Republic

    Čeští experti z ČVUT se podílí na boji proti terorismu. Vytvořili online výukovou platformu HERMES, která přispívá k deradikalizaci bývalých džihádistů a k prevenci náboru nových lidí pro teroristickou činnost. Pomocí interaktivních cvičení a dalších vzdělávacích nástrojů učí odborníky, kteří se podílejí na procesu reintegrace potenciálně závadových osob do společnosti, jak oddělit radikální džihádisty od ostatních vězňů. Platforma se také zaměřuje na prevenci šíření radikálních myšlenek a možnosti pracovního uplatnění propuštěných věznů.

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  • Women Transforming Their Lives In Prison

    November 27, 2019 |

    Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

    Radio Talk Show |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Wilsonville, Oregon

    The Insight Alliance leads a series of classes in three Oregon prisons that strive to change people's behavior by changing how they think. "When people feel better they do better," the founder says. The focus is on resisting the natural impulse to let negative thoughts control our behavior, or dwelling on them in a way that clouds thinking. In the state's only women's prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a group of women in the class talk about how it has changed their lives, and how they know it will make them better people once they leave prison.

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  • Inspiring Tale of a Chicago Neighborhood That Would Not Die

    November 25, 2019 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Community members and local organizations on the South side of Chicago collaborate to reclaim their neighborhoods from crime, violence, and poverty by engaging in community conflict resolution, policing and networks of support. Groups like the Southwest Organizing Project and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network banded together to interrupt gang violence in the city, relying on the experience of former gang members and offenders to guide the organizations' missions for non-violence in their communities.

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  • Breaking the cycle: Fulton's first all-female program works to address recidivism

    November 19, 2019 |

    Columbia Missourian |

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    Response Location: United States, Fulton, Missouri

    The Fulton Community Supervision Center in Missouri provides trauma-informed, gender-specific care and services to women who face the risk of recidivism. Participants live at the center, where they receive services like cognitive behavioral therapy and classes that teach coping mechanisms and personal and professional development. Core to much of the programming is helping women find their self worth.

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  • Creative Freedom

    November 18, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    New York-based nonprofit, Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), runs theater programs for individuals experiencing incarceration as a way of improving mental health and reducing recidivism. While the United States’ criminal justice system has been focused on punitive measures, there’s been a trend toward rehabilitation across the country in recent years. Participants in RTA have shown a rate of recidivism of just 5% – compared to a 60% national average – but funding and sustainability remain a consistent hurdle.

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  • Pennsylvania will no longer hold death-row prisoners in endless solitary confinement

    November 18, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Following an ACLU-led civil-rights lawsuit, the Pennsylvania Department of Correction has implemented huge changes to the treatment of death row inmates. In prisons across the state, individuals who have been sentenced to death no longer have to undergo strip searches, are allowed to have contact visitations with family and friends, can apply for prison employment, and socialize with others in their unit.

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  • The judge, jury and lawyers are kids. But punishments at N.J. youth court are real.

    November 18, 2019 |

    NJ Advance Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    The 10-year-old Newark Youth Court has heard some 700 cases in which high school students serve as judge, jury, and lawyers in proceedings that avoid school discipline or criminal charges with creative exercises in personal accountability. Taking aim at fights, disruptive behavior, or more serious offenses involving weapons or drugs. the Youth Court seeks to encourage better life choices. Outcomes may exclude punishment altogether, imposing community service (including Youth Court jury duty) or other alternatives to jail, avoiding criminal records that can ruin someone's future.

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  • Hartford first city to aid former inmates with Lyft rides

    November 06, 2019 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    Hartford, Connecticut, in partnership with Lyft and the criminal justice reform group, #cut50, is providing transportation credits to formerly incarcerated individuals. The effort aims to help individuals reentering their communities with a way of getting to places like job interviews and doctors appointments – things that will help them get back on their feet.

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  • Fresh Data Shows How Focused Deterrence Can Keep At-Risk Individuals from Crime

    November 06, 2019 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    In 2013, Detroit’s law enforcement agencies started using focused deterrence – a method that uses data to identify at-risk individuals – to decrease the rate of violent crime in the city. The method, part of the national program, Ceasefire, partners police departments with social workers and other city services to deter people from criminal behavior. A new study in the journal, Crime and Delinquency, has been published that links the strategy to decreased crime rates and recidivism.

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  • How More Than 50 Women Walked Out of a Prison in Oklahoma

    November 04, 2019 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Taft, Oklahoma

    More than 500 people in Oklahoma had their drug possession felony sentences commuted after voters approved an initiative that changed some drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. The commutation led to a mass release of prisoners, something that took collaboration between social service groups to make sure those leaving had housing, job support, and other essentials.

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