Business
Fair Chance Employment
An excerpt from Untapped Talent explains how second chance hiring works for both businesses and communities.
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Tag: Criminal Justice
Health
The Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health
Rick Doblin launched the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in 1986 to research and advocate for the use of LSD, magic mushrooms, and Ecstasy to treat mental illness. After more than three decades of labor, he has found his moment.
Civic Engagement
Protests, Violence, and Political Change
The Black protests of the US civil rights era influenced the national political agenda via the media coverage they received.
Government
Mass Decarceration, COVID-19, and Justice in America
COVID-19 and the horrific murders of George Floyd and other black Americans have amplified the desperate need for the US justice system to be radically reimagined.
Collaboration
How Philanthropy Can Create Public Systems Change
Philanthropic investment in the public system through the social sector can enable statewide systems change. Here is the story of how one initiative transformed access to public higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Californians. Read other feature stories or Editor-in-Chief Eric Nee's note from the Spring 2020 issue.
Technology
A Peaceful Cyberspace
Geneva-based CyberPeace Institute offers a beacon of hope for cybersecurity in an increasingly unsecured and dangerous cyberspace. A What's Next article from the Spring 2020 issue.
Collaboration
Decriminalizing Mental Illness
The Stepping Up Initiative uses webinars, a tool kit, and data collection to tackle the problem of people with serious mental illness being incarcerated in the United States approximately two million times each year. A Field Report from the Winter 2020 issue.
Human Rights
How Colombia Faces Its Past
States that undergo a process of transitional justice are selective about the international norms they adopt. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Human Rights
The Fight to End Cash Bail
The Bail Project began as a simple idea by Bronx public defenders to set up a fund to protect their clients from the ravages of an unfair system. Now their advocacy is part of a vanguard to overhaul US criminal justice.
Social Services
Incarceration and Unemployment
Being imprisoned hurts people’s prospects for employment by taking them out of the job market.