Community Reentry Lab at UMBC

Keep all youth criminal records confidential | COMMENTARY In Maryland, only some youth who break the law have their criminal histories protected from public view. If a child is charged as an adult and a judge later moves the case to juvenile court, those records are already out there for the world to see, a reality Maryland lawmakers need to change.

BREAKING NEWS: Florida voters passed Amendment 4!

Nearly one-quarter of the entire disenfranchised population in the U.S will now have the right to vote and will no longer be treated as second class citizens.

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? The long read: Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime

You can help bail people out of jail using your office computer. As you work, so does the app. A new app allows you to volunteer your spare power to generate money to bail people out of jail.

Reentry to the community is hard, especially for women

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2017/10/09/suffering-system-recidivism-incarceration-prison-jail-policing-the-usa/708781001/

She has spent nearly a lifetime in the system

Words matter

Opinion blog post: When you refer to someone with criminal charges, the words you use can have dehumanizing effects. Read the blog post to learn more. http://bit.ly/2vHykZz.

ADDED in reaction to some of the comments/feedback we've received: We apologize if this opinion blog offended anyone.

This particular blog post is from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Biomedical Odyssey opinion blog written by our trainees—the students, postdocs, and fellows – here at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

If you haven’t already, we encourage you to read the blog post to learn more about one trainees’ personal experience and perspective in a blog series called “From Prison Cells to Ph.D.”