Community Reentry Lab at UMBC

01/27/2020

In Maryland, only some youth who break the law have their criminal histories protected from public view. If a child is charged as an adult and a judge later moves the case to juvenile court, those records are already out there for the world to see, a reality Maryland lawmakers need to change.

11/07/2018

BREAKING NEWS: Florida voters passed Amendment 4!

Nearly one-quarter of the entire disenfranchised population in the U.S will now have the right to vote and will no longer be treated as second class citizens.

03/17/2018

02/12/2018

An interview with Harvard University-trained public defense lawyer Bryan Stevenson on racial trauma, segregation, and listening to marginalized voices.

12/13/2017

12/09/2017

The long read: Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime

12/08/2017

Another offer to help at-risk adults in Baltimore get off the streets and out of trouble.

12/07/2017

A new app allows you to volunteer your spare power to generate money to bail people out of jail.

10/15/2017

Large swaths of California have been destroyed by wildfires that have left at least 21 dead, razing thousands of homes and businesses throughout the region.

10/10/2017

Reentry to the community is hard, especially for women

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2017/10/09/suffering-system-recidivism-incarceration-prison-jail-policing-the-usa/708781001/

10/03/2017

Excited to be the researchers in this researcher practitioner partnership!

The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded the Baltimore Police Department a $750,000 grant to “improve supervision strategies that will reduce recidivism rates,” it announced Thursday.

09/21/2017

Words matter

Opinion blog post: When you refer to someone with criminal charges, the words you use can have dehumanizing effects. Read the blog post to learn more. http://bit.ly/2vHykZz.

ADDED in reaction to some of the comments/feedback we've received: We apologize if this opinion blog offended anyone.

This particular blog post is from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Biomedical Odyssey opinion blog written by our trainees—the students, postdocs, and fellows – here at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

If you haven’t already, we encourage you to read the blog post to learn more about one trainees’ personal experience and perspective in a blog series called “From Prison Cells to Ph.D.”