Pennsylvania’s prison system is looking to expand its model “Little Scandinavia” unit — which aims to create a more humane environment inside prisons — following the success of the pilot project, the ...

In 2020, after the tragic murder of George Floyd, there was a moment when it seemed as if America, California included, was ready to reform our broken and discriminatory criminal justice system. In ...

“Every single person who goes to a prison in Scandinavia comes back and says, ‘We should do something like this here,’” says Hyatt. But until Pennsylvania tried its hand, nobody had. There was no ...

From left to right, professors Lauren Katz Smith, Clare Strange and Jordan Hyatt of the Drexel Justice Collaborative. At Drexel University, the study of justice reform is more than an academic ...

For many people who end up in prison, efforts at rehabilitation are hampered by historic, pervasive and deeply embedded social inequalities. The bloated prison system in England and Wales has become a ...

The state Department of Corrections is in the process of expanding a pilot housing program modeled after more humane prisons in Scandanavia to three additional prisons, the agency disclosed Thursday, ...

Jordan Hyatt, PhD,an associate professor and director of the Center for Public Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a March 4Penn Livestory about Pennsylvania looking to expand ...