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Patrick Dai Is Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for Antisemitic Online Threats
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Patrick Dai ’24 was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison due to posting multiple threats to Jewish students on Greekrank in October.
Cornell Parole Initiative
Cornell Parole Initiative Student Group Works to Free Prisoners Across New York State
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The Cornell Parole Initiative, a student organization that has successfully released six people from prison, works to prepare parole applicants, who are serving sentences between twenty years to life imprisonment, for their hearings.
Cornell Prison Education Program
Cornell Prison Education Program Spearheads Statewide Effort to Provide Masks to the Incarcerated Across NYS
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Although classes being conducted by Cornell’s Prison Education Program have been put on hold, the organization has shifted their focus to making sure inmates are provided with proper health equipment during the pandemic.
Cornell Prison Education Program
Cornell Prison Education Program Spearheads Statewide Effort to Provide Masks to the Incarcerated Across NYS
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Although classes being conducted by Cornell’s Prison Education Program have been put on hold, the organization has shifted their focus to making sure inmates are provided with proper health equipment during the pandemic.
community
‘Rethinking Violence’ Lecture Urges Students to Question Approach to Violent Crime
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“The essence of the criminal justice reform model in the popular press has focused on the lowest of the low hanging fruit — the nonviolent drug offender in prison for possession of controlled substances,” Prof. Joseph Margulies, government, law, said in a lecture Thursday afternoon. But, according to Margulies, this narrative often embraced by the media is wrong. Margulies is a self-described “student of the American criminal justice system,” according to his bio on the Cornell Law School website. He has defended numerous people “caught up in the excesses of the so-called war on terror,” such as Abu Zubaydah — a Saudian Arabian national held at CIA black sites and interrogated in 2002 and 2003, the public discovery of which led to the infamous Bush Administration “torture memos.”
He disputed the popularly-held notion that the United States incarcerates large numbers of low-level non-violent offenders for minor possession charges and sentences them to disproportionate sentences — calling that perception the “holy grail” of incarceration. “We don’t send those people to prison … the search for the low-level non-violent drug offender is like the hunt for a snark …They may exist but they are vanishingly rare,” he said.
academia
Nearly Half of Americans Report Having Had Immediate Family Member Incarcerated, Cornell-Led Study Finds
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Nearly half of all Americans have had a family member jailed or imprisoned, a significantly higher figure than earlier estimates.
prison education
Cornell’s Prison Education Program Awarded $1.7 Million Grant
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The program hopes to use the awarded grant to pursue its dual-ended goals, seeking to benefit both the incarcerated students and the participating professors, graduate students, and undergraduate volunteers of the Cornell community.
mass incarceration
Prof. Bruce Western Shares Research on Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
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There is no shortage of research detailing the extent of American mass incarceration and the impact it has on the people and communities most affected, Western said, but he found that the analytical data often lacked a human element.
sentencing
Cornell Alumnus, HBO Producer Sent to Prison for Role in Doctor’s Death
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A Cornell graduate and award-winning television producer will be in prison next month after he admitted to helping his cocaine dealer carry a dying woman out of a Manhattan apartment.
News
Children Are ‘Forgotten Victims’ of Incarceration, Prof Says
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The forgotten victims of the incarceration state, Hagan said, are children whose parents are prisoners.