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On a typical Wednesday afternoon you might find her in the CUB coffee shop — and you are welcome to have a latte with her. Lisa McIntyre, associate professor of sociology, welcomes the opportunity to interact with students and informally continue discussions initiated in the classroom.Actions such as the “Lattes with Lisa” endear McIntyre to

Exploitation is not an economic development strategy.

The Best Western by the El Paso airport is now being used by ICE to house migrant families.

If empathy for the incarcerated is impossible, then be concerned about their plight because what spreads inside prison walls doesnt stay there. It travels out to the surrounding communities — and beyond. A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative titled "Mass Incarceration, COVID-19, and Community Spread" spells it out in stark terms. "Over half a million COVID-19 cases this summer were directly linked to mass incarceration," the report states. At the national level, the reports author, ...

COVID Cases in Prisons and ICE Immigration Jails Surpass 250,000 With a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak infecting about a third of all people incarcerated, medical tents are newly placed in a baseball field at San Quentin Prison during the COVID-19 pandemic in San Quentin, California, on July 9, 2020. Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images By The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate and largest systems for locking people up. As soon as the COVID-19 pand...

Prison Policy Initiative reports on "Mass Incarceration, COVID-19, and Community Spread" Gregory Hooks and Wendy Sawyer with the Prison Policy Initiative has authored this important new report titled "Mass Incarceration, COVID-19, and Community Spread." The full report is todays must-read, and here are parts of its introduction and conclusion: In 2020, a decades-long American policy failure — mass incarceration — collided with a brand new American policy failure: the mismanagement of the CO...