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PBS NewsHour and the Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative hosted a panel on the effects of incarceration on families in Gaston Hall Oct. 10

PBS Newshour, PJI Discuss Incarceration and Families

By Aamir Jamil October 13, 2023

PBS NewsHour and the Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) hosted a panel in Gaston Hall on Oct. 10 to discuss the effects of incarceration on families as part of PBS’s “Searching for Justice”...

DC Faces Lawsuit for Denying Access to Disabled Incarcerated Students

DC Faces Lawsuit for Denying Access to Disabled Incarcerated Students

By Olivia Macaulay March 3, 2023

Two incarcerated students filed complaints against Washington, D.C., on Feb. 22 for failing to provide adequate special education accommodations for imprisoned students. The School Justice Project,...

Pivot Program Welcomes Its Fifth Cohort

Pivot Program Welcomes Its Fifth Cohort

By Emily Han October 28, 2022

Georgetown University welcomed its fifth cohort of Pivot Program fellows, 19 formerly incarcerated individuals who will participate in the year-long reentry program.  The Pivot Program is designed...

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Expand Church Action on Prison Reform

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Expand Church Action on Prison Reform

By Eric Bazail-Eimil February 11, 2021

This piece discusses sexual assault, incarceration, violence, racism and drug abuse. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. “If today you hear God’s voice, harden...

Prisons and Justice Initiative Demonstrates Resilience in Age of COVID-19

Prisons and Justice Initiative Demonstrates Resilience in Age of COVID-19

By Kelly Anderson December 4, 2020

Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative has continued to expand its programs and advance its work with incarcerated people despite the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according...

ERIC RIDDICK/FACEBOOK | Georgetown students created a petition to publicize the case of Eric Riddick, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1992.

Students Petition for Exoneration of Inmate Sentenced to Life in Prison

By Cady Stanton April 5, 2019

A petition for the exoneration of Eric Riddick, a Pennsylvania inmate who was sentenced to life in prison in 1992 for first degree murder, has received over 2,780 signatures since three Georgetown University...

SPENCER COOK/THE HOYA Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced 250 formerly incarcerated Washington, D.C. residents reobtained their driver’s licenses Oct. 4.

Program Helps Formerly Imprisoned Residents Obtain Driver’s Licenses

By Alexandra Bowman October 19, 2018

The Pathways to Work Reentry Program allowed its 250th previously incarcerated resident to reobtain a Washington, D.C. driver’s license, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced Oct. 4. The Bowser administration...

FLEMING-KLINK: Criminal Justice Reform, One Box at a Time

By Isaiah Fleming-Klink June 22, 2016

For those seeking to enact criminal justice reform and policies aimed at increasing the chances of employment for ex-offenders, referred to as returning citizens, there exist particular policies normally...

FLEMING-KLINK: Prejudice Pervades Our Justice System

By Isaiah Fleming-Klink April 19, 2016

Our criminal justice system is not broken. Instead, it works with breathtaking, astonishing effectiveness — without flaw, inconvenience or inefficiency — to achieve its purpose: the subjugation of...

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