Community Reentry Lab at UMBC
The Community Reentry Lab at UMBC researches factors that promote health and well-being among those PI: Bronwyn A. Hunter, Ph.D. Graduate Students: Aliya R.
The Community Reentry Lab at UMBC researches factors that promote health and well-being among those who have been involved in the criminal justice system. Webermann, M.A., and Elaina McWilliams, MSW, LCSW-C
Research Assistants: Taylor Jasper, Christopher Hopkins, Jamar Nash, Kaitlyn Rosa, Michelle McAndrew, Ngwi Tayong, Naqiya Ghulamali, Jane Boswell, Tanisha Hawkins, Omaina Ozako, Adeola Adetunki
01/27/2020
Keep all youth criminal records confidential | COMMENTARY 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.
02/12/2018
Bryan Stevenson on What Well-Meaning White People Need to Know About Race 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
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? 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
Dan Rodricks: Are you an ex-offender looking for a fresh start? Call this number Another offer to help at-risk adults in Baltimore get off the streets and out of trouble.
12/07/2017
You can help bail people out of jail using your office computer. As you work, so does the app. A new app allows you to volunteer your spare power to generate money to bail people out of jail.
10/15/2017
Incarcerated Women Are Fighting on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires for $1 an Hour 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!
Justice Department gives Baltimore Police $750,000 grant to fight recidivism 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.”
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03/17/2018