“I’m not in prison here. This is like a four star hotel. I’ve never seen anything like it” Hosmany Ramos What makes Iceland’s prisons unique? They are known as open prisons. Most of us feel that we have a pretty good understanding of what prisons are and what they are …
“If a dog can change so can I.” anonymous DTP graduate “If a dog can change so can I.” Those words were spoken by an inmate at a Scottish prison when describing the impact of the dog-training program (DTP) in which he participated (Ormerod 2008). First implemented in a Washington …
The United States comprises less than 5% of the world’s population yet 25% of the world’s prisoners (Stein and Hanna-Truscott 2010). There are roughly two million children under age 18 with a parent in prison or jail in the United States but there are only 11 prison nurseries across the …
In the United States, nearly one in every 100 people are currently incarcerated in a jail or prison (Wagner & Bertram 2020). Nearly 75% of individuals who are released from prison are rearrested within five years from the end of their previous punishment (Li 2018). What if the prison system …
