Prof. Cantora: Some Progress is Being Made in Prison Reform
May 17, 2019
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Speaking on WYPR's Future Cities program, Andrea Cantora, associate professor in the University of Baltimore's School of Criminal Justice and director of the University’s Second Chance College Program—an effort to offer post-secondary education for incarcerated students prior to their release from Maryland's Jessup Correctional Institution—says the nation's prison system may benefit from reforms focused on the rehabilitation of inmates.
As part of the show's conversation about the United States' globally-high incarceration rate, Prof. Cantora says prison systems in other countries may be able to provide lessons that could be applied back home.
"We're seeing small things happen across the country" in improving the ways that the justice system handles matters of incarceration, she says. Countries like Germany and Norway treat prisoners in ways that are markedly different than in the U.S.; largely those differences are about rehabilitation versus punishment.
The biggest barrier to achieving domestic reforms, she notes, is that each state system is different.
Listen to the Future Cities episode.
Learn more about Prof. Cantora and the Second Chance College Program.