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Why Place Matters to Reentry Experiences

Mar 09 2022
By Andrea Leverentz, author of Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes ReentryIn October 2014, a bridge that connected Long Island in Boston Harbor to Moon Island — as well as Squantum Peninsula in Quincy, Massachusetts — was abruptly closed by Boston’s mayor. For over 80 years, Long Island had bee
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The Quiet Revolution of Women Experiencing Maternal Incarceration 

Mar 07 2022
By Geniece Crawford Mondé, author of This Is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison SystemIn the wake of global protests for justice in the summer of 2020, a broader conversation about the impact of this country’s criminal legal system and its ties to systemic inequality wa
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