Over these past several years, jail and prison advocates and activists have called for the ending of “solitary confinement,” a practice that has subjected generations of incarcerated men and women to inhumane punishment in segregated confinement with little to no...
Andre Ward
Both Sides of the Bars- Repairing Today’s Ineffective Justice System Strategies
American prisons house more than 1.5 million individuals, an increase of over 390% since 1978. This growth persisted even in the face of an overarching decline in crime rates since the 1990s and the longest terms of incarceration since we began to collect accurate data.
Both Sides of the Bars- Pell Grant Restoration- Its Significance For Affecting Meaningful Individual Change
Recently Congress presented a stimulus package that included significant changes to higher-education law, including the resumption of Federal financial aid to people in prison that was banned in the 1994 crime bill championed by then-Sen. Joe Biden. The restoration of...
Both Sides of the Bars- 2020 Year in Review
In this episode of Both Sides of the Bars, host Andre Ward takes a look to 2020 along with his guest, gabriel sayegh, the co-founder of Katal Center for Equity, Health and Justice. They talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemia on the criminal justice system, the...
Both Sides of the Bars- Releasing Aging People in Prison- 12-13-20
Americans are aging in prison. But what needs to be done about reducing that elderly population and what to do with them once they are released is still being studied and debated. On this episode, host Andre Ward talks about this issue with Jose Hamza Saldana,...
Both Sides of the Bar – October 2020 – Remembering Attica 49 Years Later
When tempers reached a boiling point on September 9, 1971, the prisoners filling the cells of New York State's Attica prison erupted in a full-fledged rebellion, taking over the prison and holding it for four days, along with several guards who had been taken hostage....