P is for Prison Reform - Straight to Jail!

This week on Enter the Rabbit Hole, Will and Alisha are taking a bite out of crime... statistics and prevention. We answer burning questions like: Why are there so many incarcerated people in the US prison system? How can we lower recidivism rates? And why do Norway's prisons look like a vacation resort that I can't afford? Join us as we take a deep dive into the prison system and how we can possibly make it better.

 

Sources:

Websites:

Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total

https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All

Articles:

SC has one of the lowest recidivism rates in country, new survey shows. Here's why (Emily Bohatch, The State, Jul 2021)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/sc-has-one-of-the-lowest-recidivism-rates-in-country-new-survey-shows-heres-why/ar-AAM7dtn

A systematic review of criminal recidivism rates worldwide: 3-year update (Denis Yukhnenko, Shivpriya Sridhar, Seena Fazel, Nov 2020)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/

How Norway Is Teaching America To Make Its Prisons More Humane (Laura Paddison, Huff Post, Aug 2019)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/norway-american-prison-system-reform_n_5d5ab979e4b0eb875f270db1

How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours (BBC News, July 2019)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48885846

In Icelandic prisons, the cells are open and inmates do the weekly food shop (Francis Pakes, The Independent, Nov 2018)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/i-deliberately-sent-myself-to-prison-in-iceland-they-didn-t-even-lock-the-cell-doors-there-a8622216.html

I toured prisons around the world — and the system that seems the most relaxed is also one that works (Baz Dreisinger, Business Insider, Jul 2018)

https://www.businessinsider.com/norways-prisons-are-better-than-the-american-prisons-2018-6?op=1

These Programs Are Helping Fix A Broken U.S. Prison System (Robbie Crouch, Huff Post, Dec 2017)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/recidivism-programs-prison_n_6655392

Not the worst, but not Norway: US prisons vs. other models (Christopher Zoukis, Huff Post, Sep 2017)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/not-the-worst-but-not-norway-us-prisons-vs-other_b_59b0772ae4b0c50640cd646d

39% of Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison (Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Inimai Chettiar, Time Magazine, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, Dec 2016)

https://time.com/4596081/incarceration-report/

World Prison Population List|Eleventh Edition (US Dept of Justice, 2015)

https://nicic.gov/world-prison-population-listeleventh-edition

6 Reasons Why Prison Is Better In Europe Than America (Erin Fuchs, Business Insider, May 2014)

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/vera-institute-european-american-prison-report-2014-5

Top 10 Modern Prison Programs (rushfan, Listverse, Aug 2008)

https://listverse.com/2008/08/14/top-10-modern-prison-programs/

If Prisons Don’t Work, What Will? (Emily Bazelon, New York Times, April 2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/opinion/mass-incarceration-sentencing-reform.html

The Hidden Cost of Incarceration (Beatrix Lockwood and Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project, Dec 2019)

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/12/17/the-hidden-cost-of-incarceration

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020 (Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner, Prison Policy, March 2020)

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html 

‘I Had Nothing’: How Parole Perpetuates a Cycle of Incarceration and Instability (Raven Rakia, The Appeal, Apr 2019)

https://theappeal.org/how-parole-perpetuates-a-cycle-of-incarceration-and-instability/ 

The Purgatory of Parole Incarcerations During the Coronavirus Crisis (Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, Apr 2020)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-purgatory-of-parole-incarcerations-during-the-coronavirus-crisis

Time Served in State Prison, 2016 (Danielle Kaeble, US Department of Justice, Nov 2018)

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/tssp16.pdf

50-State Comparison: Expungement, Sealing & Other Record Relief (Restoration of Rights Project, 2020)

https://ccresourcecenter.org/state-restoration-profiles/50-state-comparisonjudicial-expungement-sealing-and-set-aside/

Furloughs and Recidivism (US Department of Justice, 1991)

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/furloughs-and-recidivism

Expunging and Sealing Criminal Records (Center for American Progress, Kenny Lo, April 2020)

https://americanprogress.org/article/expunging-clearing-criminal-records/ 

https://www.standard.net/opinion/beyond-bars/2019/mar/25/beyond-bars-parole-not-impossible-if-you-follow-the-rules/

Videos:

5 Incredible Prison Rehabilitation Programs (Great Big Story, Nov 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmqL65ZBx44&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

PRISON PROGRAMS THAT WORK (Eddie Conway, The Real News, Dec 2018)

https://therealnews.com/prison-programs-that-work

Prison: how to break the cycle of reoffending? (The Economist, Oct 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBUSzXvMWCk&ab_channel=CNBCMakeIt