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Can Court Mandated Yoga and Meditation Keep Kids Out of Prison?

The Lineage Project is helping rehabilitate incarcerated and troubled youth by teaching them skills like meditation and yoga.

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Social Impact Bond Launches in U.S. Backed By Goldman Sachs, Mike Bloomberg Billionaires See Profit in Prisons, But It's a Good Thing This Time

The money men at Goldman Sachs join NYC's Billionaire-in-Chief to use creative finance for good. The Social Impact Bond has come to America!

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No Safety in Numbers A New Way to Treat Sex Offenders

Are registries the worst way to manage convicted sex offenders?

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Why the Norway Shooter May End Up Serving A Life Sentence

Anders Breivik isn't going to jail for 21 years, but he won't be executed either. His countrymen tell us they prefer a less "medieval" punishment.

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Weighing the Death Penalty vs. Life Without Parole

What's worse—Death? Life in prison? Life after prison?

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Light-Skinned Black Women Receive Shorter Prison Sentences Than Dark Women

A scary new study says a person's color, not just her race, is a factor in criminal sentencing.

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Capital Stupidity: The Death Penalty Costs California $300 Million Per Execution

Not only is the death penalty racist, classist, and ultra-violent, a new study says it's tremendously wasteful, too.

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Why Prison Rape Jokes Are Really Not Funny

With hundreds of thousands of sexual assaults behind bars annually, prison rape is no laughing matter.

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Spread the Word: Send a Quick Message of Hope to an Innocent Prisoner

Thomas Haynesworth is an innocent man whose freedom is in sight. Send him a quick message of hope and support here.

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Should an 11-Year-Old Boy Go to Jail for Life?

Jordan Brown is set to be tried as an adult for a crime committed when he was 11. He might go to jail for life. America's exceptional like that.

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Can the U.K.'s Social Impact Bonds Work in the United States?

A new plan harnesses profit incentive to solve social problems. If it works, it could scale big enough to change government programs everywhere.

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Meet the Social Impact Bond

A new way to pay for social innovations launches in the U.K. The first Social Impact Bond will pay to fight recidivism with money from charity...

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Jailbirds

There are currently more than 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States. What does that look like, exactly? That's equivalent to...