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State Rep. Lois DeBerry of Memphis dies after long battle with cancer

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The Lois DeBerry Center in Nashville, named after her, revolutionized the way we dealt with our incarcerated population and she deserves much of the credit for bringing our prison system out from under federal oversight and into the 21st century …
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Judges, officers, artists reclaim abandoned space at Jarvis youth courts

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The second half of the H-shaped building, which opened in 1957, has been abandoned since 2009, after the high-security jail was plagued by controversy and the Ministry of Children & Youth Services moved detention to the Roy McMurtry Centre in Brampton …
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Will the Great U.S. Penal Reform Tip the Balance for Addicts?

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At the same time that the state's prisons were expanding, rehabilitation programs were gutted. In Kern County, which has the state's highest rate of recidivism, most re-alignment offenders with substance abuse problems had little or no treatment while …
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Broader View of Rockefeller Drug Law Reform

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The research provided by the special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget Brennan, as a basis for her argument that drug law reform is causing more defendants to opt for jail over treatment ("With Drug Law Reform, More Defendants Are Opting for Jail Time Over …
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