by Michael Chancellor | Dec 29, 2021 | Opinion
I spent nearly six years leading the mental health department at the Allan B. Polunsky Maximum Security Prison in east Texas. This prison housed “death row” (DR), as well as a significant number of offenders in administrative segregation (AdSeg), more widely referred... by Chris Smith | Mar 22, 2018 | Opinion
My sister shared a moving testimony last week concerning what she witnessed at a recent funeral service. The deceased was an elderly woman who had committed her adult life to prison ministry. Sister Eva’s pastor shared, “I noticed that Sister Eva was only... by Colin Harris | Mar 20, 2018 | Opinion
Incarceration is, by definition, a problem because its reason for being is a response to behavior outside the legal norms of a society. It is also an arena for many “problems within the problem” because of the challenges inherent in its application and... by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 16, 2016 | News
There is “little public safety rationale” behind the imprisonment of 39 percent (576,000) of U.S. inmates, according to a report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. “Many of the laws and policies that increased... by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 2, 2015 | News
More than 5 million children have had at least one parent with whom they live be incarcerated at some point in their childhood. This estimate was part of a report published by Child Trends (CT), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group focused on issues related to...