University of Dayton Criminal Justice Studies program elevated to department, creating more experiential learning opportunities for students : University of Dayton, Ohio udayton.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from udayton.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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University of Dayton students in this spring’s Introduction to Criminal Justice course are learning first-hand about life on death row by speaking directly with inmates featured in the book
Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row by author Tessie Castillo.
Martha Hurley, professor and director of the Criminal Justice Studies program, partnered with Castillo to integrate this live component into her course. Although this was the pilot semester for the live discussions with inmates, it has been successful in the eyes of students.
“It has been really cool to hear all of their personal testimonies and their day-to-day life on death row,” said Morgan Ramsey, a first-year psychology major from Kansas City, Kansas.
It’s dead man walking : Newspaper investigation reveals mistreatment of Minnesota inmates during pandemic
The Department of Corrections denied vulnerable inmates medical release within months of their scheduled release date, left inmates on extended quarantines without an explanation and forced some prisoners into cells with others who were COVID-positive. 9:00 am, Apr. 1, 2021 ×
Robert Schultz is photographed Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Wells, Minnesota. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
ROCHESTER, Minn. Robert Schultz had less than six months before he would be released on supervision. He wondered if he d make it that long.
He peered outside his Faribault prison cell every day and saw a spreading sea of red tags: the mark of an inmate thought to have COVID-19. He knew he was especially vulnerable to the virus. Schultz suffers from kidney problems and sustained lung damage from a 2017 house fire he started in a suicide attempt, which led
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