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Direct linkRuffins, Paul – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
The first Innocence Project (IP) was founded in 1992 by attorneys Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. The original goal was to free people whose innocence could be proven using DNA. So far, IPs have helped free nearly 300 men and women who had served an average of 13 years for crimes they…
Descriptors: Working Class, Crime, Economically Disadvantaged, Social Justice
Pluviose, David – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
Increasingly, dropping out of high school is a one-way ticket to prison for Black men. Recent research conducted by sociologists Becky Pettit and Bruce Western indicates that 3 percent of Whites and 20 percent of Blacks born between 1965 and 1969 had served time in prison by their early thirties. The crisis among Black and Hispanic men mobilized…
Descriptors: African American Students, Correctional Institutions, Males, Academic Achievement
