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...Harvard Prisoner Education Program has tutored at the Suffolk County House of Correction for more than a decade, and we currently tutor at two other facilities as well. Early this year, we were told that we would only be able to bring in half as many people as we had in the past, due to "safety" concerns of the new deputy superintendent. Left with many more tutors than places for them to tutor, we looked to expand to other facilities. MCI-Framingham, an all-women's prison, turned us down outright. MCI-Concord, a facility that had no teachers when...
...these reasons, our program decided to broaden its focus, from just tutoring to tutoring and planning a conference. From April 17th to 26th the first "Prisons in America" conference will be held on campus, dealing exclusively with prison-related issues. We have scheduled speakers representing a range of perspectives and backgrounds to appeal to a wide audience. Whether you are opposed to wasting money; rampant, systematic abuse; racial bias or just bad, bloated government, prison reform is an issue we all need to face and act upon. We must elevate the level of discussion on these issues, so that...
Alex A. Guerrero '01, is a philosophy concentrator in Mather House and co-director of the Harvard University Prisoner Education Program...
...education, intervention, and prevention," says Diane F. Scott, program director for the Willis Moore Youth Center, which sees about 100 Cambridge students each week...
...justifies the expropriations on the basis that white farmers acquired the land only after 19th-century British colonization had wrenched it from its original Zimbabwean owners, and that Britain should therefore pay compensation for white farms expropriated by his government. Britain has offered to help fund a land reform program, but only after the invasions are ended. Mugabe critics often point out that in many of the instances where the government has bought out white farmers, the land has found its way into the hands of the president's cronies rather than being redistributed among the rural poor. Western donors...