
Bringing prisoners and students together as classmates
Residents of the California Institution for Women joined a class on memoir writing alongside USC students, facilitating empathy and new perspectives on prison.
Residents of the California Institution for Women joined a class on memoir writing alongside USC students, facilitating empathy and new perspectives on prison.
The latest USC Dornsife/LA Times poll shows voters favor reducing sentences for low-level offenders, but oppose releasing prisoners if it will harm public safety.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill co-sponsored by the Post-Conviction Justice Project at the USC Gould School of Law.
After spending more than a decade fighting for the release of domestic abuse victim Glenda Virgil, USC Gould School of Law’s Post-Conviction Justice Project scored an important victory when Gov. Jerry Brown granted her parole.
California voters favor reducing sentences for people who commit low-level crimes in order to reduce the state’s prison population, but they oppose releasing prisoners if it will harm public safety, according to the latest USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll.
Aileen Hongo calls them ladies. This small act of politeness may seem like nothing to most people. But as she sits in a folding chair next to these women, Hongo recognizes that for many of them, even the most basic courtesies may be all that they will ever know.
Gretchen Heidemann, a doctoral student at the USC School of Social Work, has received a fellowship to further her research on how women successfully can transition from incarceration back into society.
The Post-Conviction Justice Project at USC Law recently prevailed in a defining case for the California parole system for longtime client Sandra Davis-Lawrence.
USC School of Social Work professor will take part in the governor’s efforts to overhaul California’s corrections program.