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Why We Need to Destigmatize Incarceration

By Mariama Sidibe “The United States has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners.” This statistic gets thrown around in documentaries, classrooms, and by activists. There is no denying that the American justice system is broken, and has been for...

Education and Incarceration: Struggles and Joy

By Robert Wood, Senior Social Media Advisor – The Prison Scholar Fund March 7, 2002: I’m taken into federal custody, charged, and eventually plead guilty. As I leave the federal jail headed into the federal prison system in 2004 I begin to ponder not only...

Broken – America’s Criminal Justice System

By Robert Wood, Senior Social Media Advisor – The Prison Scholar Fund March 7, 2002. The crack of dawn.  Rain constantly pounds the pavement. On the gang infested East Side of San Diego where gunshots ring throughout the night and police constantly speed to deal...