Poor nutrition following misguided Federal Dietary Guidelines contribute to impulsive and aggressive behavior in prisons A previous federal prison reform post, Time to Reform Unhealthy Federal Prison Food linked to various articles and podcasts...
Headline from a 2013 Wired story: Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are Most Likely to Reoffend (March 26, 2013)–not quite a Minority Report pre-crime scan, but a pre-release prediction from evidence of inmates’ reduced...
How many languish in federal prisons convicted of miscounting or mismeasuring fish? Of the tens of thousands of regulations that restrict entrepreneurs trying to work each day or build new enterprises in farming, dairy,...
Update: See Food Behind Bars Podcast episode “The Science” for discussion of prison nutrition research. High sugar, high-carb foods a key problem in prisons. Interviews Kimberly Wilson about her podcast series Crime and Nourishment....
Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a major positive or perhaps dystopian role in federal prison reform. Consider Tool to predict recidivism in federal inmates could make more prisoners eligible for early release (Phys.org, April...
It’s time to transform our nation’s prisons. We’re supporting bold ideas to safely reduce prison populations, improve culture and conditions, increase transparency, and bolster prospects for successful reintegration. Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice, May 15,...
The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction. NCFCA debaters have a small slice of the US prison population and policies to research and reform through...
After decades of bureaucratic delay, a new space race has rocket companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin pushing costs down with reusable rockets with dramatically reduced launch costs. Soon travel to the Moon and...
[June 24 update: federal prison policies topic was chosen]Notes on economics of federal prison reform The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction. Since many homeschool...
Stoa league has Policy and LD topic choice with analysis: Spring Vote 2020. 1. Preliminary notes and links, first on foreign policy: Can this new think tank clean up America’s flabby foreign policy? (The...
