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October 03, 2017

Finding Hilda: The Story of Three Sisters

October 03, 2017/ Emma Friedlander

Prison Public Memory Project intern Emma Friedlander reports on the remarkable story of a group of sisters and their effort to understand the complicated life of their grandmother, Hilda Cornell.

September 26, 2014

The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same... Or Do They?

September 26, 2014/

Echoing a century-old trend, today’s reformers’ are critical of large juvenile prisons and aim to create small, ‘home-like’ environments for confined youth.

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