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ACCA Professional Member Chaplain Assaulted by Inmate

We are pleased to report that Chaplain Phyllis Taylor - co-author of the grief pamphlet on this website - tells us that she is now "well in body and spirit" and has returned to her chaplain duties after being injured in an attack by an inmate in the Philadelphia Prison System. To read an article that Phyllis wrote about the assault and its aftermath, Click here

Colleges Push for More Resources to Support Prison Education Programs
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Opinion: Why Prison Reform Must Include Pell Grant Access
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INCARCERATION RATES VARY WIDELY BASED ON WHERE YOUNG MEN GREW UP

 

By Bill Bishop

 

The chances of winding up in prison are much greater for young men who grew up in states like Virginia and Delaware than they are for young men from Maine or Rhode Island.

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https://www.dailyyonder.com/incarceration-rates-vary-widely-based-young-men-grew/2018/12/04/28950/