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Jail and Prison Conditions

Even if an inmate's sentence is not oppressively long, their treatment while incarcerated can still constitute subhuman treatment. Prisons are not medical facilities, but they regularly are forced to deal with mental health problems and care for elderly and terminally ill inmates. Food, if it's even edible, usually lacks enough nutrition for inmates' health to not deteriorate. Plus, with a lack of opportunities to see family, read, or gain skill sets, inmates are placed in buildings which lack any resemblance of the civilized world.

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How College In Prison Turns Around Lives And Saves Taxpayers Money

“BPI is part of Bard College, a small, private university in New York State. It enrolls just over 300 students, all of them serving time inside six different New York State prisons. The show is four hours long, but the stories of individual prisoners and the program as a whole are gripping. One of the most interesting things about BPI is the very high level of the college courses taught there. Rather than remedial instruction, the students are learning about The Brothers Karamazov and high-level mathematics.“

Forbes

November 23, 2019

EducationPhillip ReevesNovember 23, 2019Forbes, Bard Prison Initiative, PBS, Ken BurnsComment

How secret languages thrive behind bars

“Prison language, or language created by inmates while incarcerated, has a long and vivid history, and is likely as old as the modern prison itself. It can alternately can be described as prison slang (informal talk), cant (a secret language), or argot (jargon of a certain group). “

PBS News Hour

June 3, 2019

Jail & Prison ConditionsPhillip ReevesJune 3, 2019PBS, PBS News HourComment

Incarcerated People Remain Vulnerable to the Worst Ravages of a Warming World

“The problem of rising temperatures amplifies the most pressing issues facing U.S. prisons and jails: chronically tight budgets, aging infrastructure, and the relative invisibility of incarcerated people, a disproportionate number of whom (in Texas, about two-thirds) are black or Latino. In a country that imprisons more of its people—especially racial minorities—than any country on Earth, this will not be an easy problem to untangle. “

PBS

December 5, 2019

Jail & Prison ConditionsPhillip ReevesDecember 5, 2018PBS, TexasComment