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Washington University’s Prison Education Project (PEP) hosted Marisa Omori, Ph.D., to speak about how the development of artificial intelligence, specifically facial recognition technologies, may impact racial inequality in the criminal justice system, April 11. Around 20 WashU community members gathered in Hurst Lounge to hear Omori speak in an event titled “Invisible Inequalities: Mechanisms of ....
Student Young tutors incarcerated students, co-founded reentry fund to help formerly incarcerated make fresh start April 14, 2021 SHARE Kennedy Young is among 13 members of the Washington University community who will receive a Virgil Ethic of Service Award during a virtual ceremony at 6 p.m. April 21. Young is a co-founder of the Reentry Collective, which provides direct cash assistance to formerly incarcerated people. Kennedy Young, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, used to believe that only bad people went to jail. “I didn’t understand the prison system and how it disproportionately impacts poor folks and people of color,” said Kennedy, who grew up in Little Rock, Ark. ....