Crime Sift

The inspiration for this post came from a conversation I had with a sheriff who was telling me about a chat he had with a prisoner. The prisoner was telling the sheriff about how the inmates overcome some of their day to day challenges. For example, at the penitentiary the inmates are not […]

This is from the mediathatmatters film festival. It touches on the idea that a failure on the front end, the education of youth leads to a greater likelihood of offending and incarceration. The film includes interviews with students, teachers, administrators, attorneys and researchers, discusses truancy laws, zero tolerance policies, the overuse of school […]