Criminal Justice Reform Series [Part II] – BPR Interviews: Sharon Dolovich
July 9, 2021
In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Sharon Dolovich, Professor of law and Director of the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program. Professor Dolovich started the which has aggregated Department of Corrections data concerning the impact of COVID-19 on incarcerated people. The data covers infection rates and deaths in state and federal prisons as well as jails nationwide. She has written extensively about the role of decarceration in dedensifying prisons and jails and mitigating the risk of COVID-19 to incarcerated people. In 2018, Professor Dolovich published a book on prison conditions and the eighth amendment titled the New Criminal Justice Thinking; 31,000 copies have been downloaded. In 2005, Cornell University’s Ethics and Public Life Program bestowed its Young Scholar Award upon her.
Some U.S. states have higher vaccination rates inside prisons than outside.
A red tag on a cell door indicating an active Covid-19 case at Faribault Prison in Minnesota in January. Many U.S. jails and prisons have struggled with coronavirus outbreaks. Credit.Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune, via Associated Press
By Ann Hinga Klein
June 1, 2021, 5:01 a.m. ET
While most of the United States’ prison systems have struggled to vaccinate inmates, some, including California’s, have outperformed vaccination rates among the general public. And experts say their success may offer clues about how to persuade skeptical people outside correctional facilities to get vaccinated.
April 26, 2021
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An annual study of inclusivity done by UCLA showed efforts to improve diversity in film and television are on the upswing. Darnell Hunt, the co-author of that research, is encouraged by what he’s seeing and says it’s good for morale and for business. (UCLA’s Ana-Christina Ramon was also quoted in the coverage.) Also: National Public Radio, BBC News, Japan Today and KCRW-FM.
(Commentary by UCLA’s Yalda Uhls and Jeremy Hsing) In the past few years, diversity, equity, and inclusion has become a front-and-center issue for Hollywood. Organizations such as the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media have been leading the way in demanding more equitable representation. But it wasn’t always that way.
Dolovich Wins UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award March 16, 2021
UCLA School of Law Professor Sharon Dolovich has been selected to receive the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2020-21, with an additional citation for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level.
With only six professors across the UCLA campus so honored, the Distinguished Teaching Award is the university’s highest recognition of excellence in the classroom. The UCLA Academic Senate has presented the award since 1961 “to increase awareness of UCLA’s leadership in teaching and public service by honoring individuals who bring respect and admiration to teaching, at UCLA.” In addition to the honor for members of the university’s tenure-track faculty, awards also go to leading lecturers and teaching assistants.
SCHOOL DAZE: How COVID Impacts Education Prison Literacy Program Adapts During COVID Lockdowns
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(This is the second in a series of articles produced in partnership with journalists from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in collaboration with the nonprofit Solutions Journalism Network.)
By ANNAKAI HAYAKAWA GESHLIDER
Part II
Part I introduced the Lit Club program. Part II, below, covers the impact of the recent COVID outbreak at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) on the Lit Club, as well as background on the Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s ROOTS program.
In August 2020, the Oakland-based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) kicked off its Lit Club program at three women’s prisons in California. In the Lit Club, nine partner pairs each with one person in prison and one APSC volunteer choose from a list of books to read together, and then discuss the book via email.