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Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project

This video shows the parts from "Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project" that feature the Georgetown Prison Scholars Program. It includes an 18-minute segment that aired in the middle of the documentary, and then it cuts to a 2-minute segment that came near the very end.

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Justice Served

Georgetown Magazine: The Prisons and Justice Initiative is changing the narrative about mass incarceration.

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What Serena Williams’s defeat tells us about the criminal-justice system

The Washington Post: Responses to the U.S. Open women’s final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka quickly bifurcated into two angry camps: One claimed that Williams “broke the rules” and therefore deserved the consequences imposed by umpire Carlos Ramos that contributed to Osaka’s impressive victory; the other viewed the punishment as evidence of lingering sexism and racism in a sport that has a long history of both.

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Unusually Cruel and Inefficiently Just: A Conversation about Punishment in the U.S.

New America: In this conversation with legal scholar and attorney Marc Howard and justice advocate and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, moderator Marcia Chatelain will examine the ways that prisons fail to rehabilitate. Join New America's Fellows and Political Reform programs as part of a conversation that seeks to challenge assumptions about what prisons can and cannot do, as well as to investigate the ways people can remain incarcerated even if they are ostensibly set free.

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The Inspiration behind "Unusually Cruel"

Oxford University Press: Marc Howard, author of, "Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment and the Real American Exceptionalism" tells us about the inspiration behind the book. Between his experiences from working in a maximum security prison, to assisting with the exoneration of his friend Marty Tankleff, Marc shines a light on the horrors of the American prison system.

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The Practical Case for Parole for Violent Offenders

The New York Times: The American criminal justice system is exceptional, in the worst way possible: It combines exceptionally coercive plea bargaining, exceptionally long sentences, exceptionally brutal prison conditions and exceptionally difficult obstacles to societal re-entry.

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In this class, prisoners and Georgetown students grapple with difficult lessons

The Washington Post: In this class of 31, the students share a hunger for learning, a nimble sense of humor, a desire to fix the problems of the world. About half the classmates are convicted felons: murderers or would-be murderers, all black but one, and nearly all serving the equivalent of life sentences. The other half are mostly white women from Georgetown University, where their lives are just beginning.

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