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Attendees perform a round dance during a press conference and prayer vigil at the former Muscowequan Indian Residential School, one of the last residential schools to close its doors in Canada in 1997 and the last fully intact residential school still sta

What the US can learn from Canada’s commission on Indigenous residential schools

Conflict & Justice

For some, recent findings signal that Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission didn’t go far enough to get answers about what took place in the residential schools. 

The World

Blogging behind bars

Conflict & Justice

Panelists introduce high-tech prison reform at SXSW

Conflict & Justice

Incarceration in America: Barriers to Re-entry

Is Flogging Better Than Prison?

The World

Booker Prize preview

Arts, Culture & Media

The 40th Booker Prize will be awarded tomorrow, naming the best novel in English by a writer from Britain, Ireland, and the Commonwealth.

New Program in Oklahoma Tires to Offset High Rate of Female Incarceration

Conflict & Justice

Aa new philanthropic program is working with the courts and legal system to keep women charged for nonviolent offenses out of the prison system in Oklahomah. The Women in Recovery program began in 2010 and is funded by the George Kaiser Foundation.