MEDIA

Stand Together Foundation: The Frederick Douglass Project brings everyday people into maximum security prisons. Here’s why.

The ABA Journal: Professor’s justice project aims to humanize those behind bars.

The New York Times: Research on the pandemic behind bars, ethically conducted, could help everyone.

USA Today: In post tough-on-crime era, Americans no longer denying connections to inmates. Pandemic replaces distance with pleas for compassionate release, better treatment.

This video shows the parts from "Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project" that feature the Georgetown Prison Scholars Program. It includes an 18-minute segment that aired in the middle of the documentary, and then it cuts to a 2-minute segment that came near the very end.

Georgetown Magazine: The Prisons and Justice Initiative is changing the narrative about mass incarceration.

Buzzfeed News: The work of Golf Digest and a group of college students freed an innocent man after 27 years behind bars. How many more are waiting for their lucky break?

The Washington Post: Responses to the U.S. Open women’s final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka quickly bifurcated into two angry camps: One claimed that Williams “broke the rules” and therefore deserved the consequences imposed by umpire Carlos Ramos that contributed to Osaka’s impressive victory; the other viewed the punishment as evidence of lingering sexism and racism in a sport that has a long history of both.

New America: In this conversation with legal scholar and attorney Marc Howard and justice advocate and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, moderator Marcia Chatelain will examine the ways that prisons fail to rehabilitate. Join New America's Fellows and Political Reform programs as part of a conversation that seeks to challenge assumptions about what prisons can and cannot do, as well as to investigate the ways people can remain incarcerated even if they are ostensibly set free.

Oxford University Press: Marc Howard, author of, "Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment and the Real American Exceptionalism" tells us about the inspiration behind the book. Between his experiences from working in a maximum security prison, to assisting with the exoneration of his friend Marty Tankleff, Marc shines a light on the horrors of the American prison system.

The Atlantic: A Q&A with Georgetown University professor Marc Morjé Howard on parole boards’ incentive to keep inmates in jail

The New York Times: The American criminal justice system is exceptional, in the worst way possible: It combines exceptionally coercive plea bargaining, exceptionally long sentences, exceptionally brutal prison conditions and exceptionally difficult obstacles to societal re-entry.