Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project (APEAP)Program Website: www.auburn.edu/apaepContacts: Kyes Stevens, Founder/Director, (334) 844-8946; stevemk@auburn.edu; apaepau@auburn.eduProgram Description: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project is a program dedicated to providing access to sust...
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Obama administration plans a 3- to 5-year test to see if college classes help reduce prison recidivismJuly 27, 2015 by Josh Mitchell and Joe PalazzoloThe Obama administration plans to restore federal funding for prison inmates to take college courses, a potentially controversial move that comes a...
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Inmate advocates say it will reduce criminal lapsesPrison inmates will soon have access to Pell grants, which assist in tuition and other education-related costs.By Josh Mitchell and Joe PalazzoloJuly 28, 2015WASHINGTON-The Obama administration’s plan to restore funding for in-prison college prog...
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Barack Obama says that the US criminal justice system needs to distinguish between young people who make mistakes and those who are truly dangerousBarack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit a federal prison on Thursday, amid a push to reform America's overcrowded and expensive co...
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Sentencing change backed by Koch billionairesA strange-bedfellows alliance of Republicans and Democrats led by President Obama is pushing to reform federal laws that have packed prisons with legions of aging, nonviolent drug dealers.Mandatory minimum sentencing laws and guidelines, along with so-...
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President would be first to visit a prison while in officeJuly 13, 2015President Obama is set to tour Oklahoma’s El Reno Correctional Institution on Thursday, becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, the White House said last week.Obama will meet with law enforcement offici...
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Drug Kingpin Escaped Mexico Prison Through Hole in CellJULY 13, 2015ALMOLOYA DE JUÁREZ, Mexico - Mexico’s most notorious drug lord now has one more nefarious title: serial prison escapee.Authorities are scrambling to find Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after his stunning escape from a maximum-security...
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The President is expected to commute more sentences at than any in historyWASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent offenders on Monday, including 14 who were serving life sentences, saying "their punishments didn't fit the crime.""These me...
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State Trooper Who Shot Escaped Inmate Hailed as ‘Hero’Malone, New York -Three weeks after their stunning prison break, Richard Matt and David Sweat have been caught -- with one now dead, the other critically wounded.The 22-day manhunt for Sweat ended Sunday when the fugitive was spotted just two ...