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Intellectual leadership for peace

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    • PEACE AND GLOBAL TRENDS
      • Global Arms Trade and Corruption
        • Revitalizing Debate on the Global Arms Trade
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    • PROTECTING VULNERABLE GROUPS
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          • Famine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs
      • Tracking COVID-19 in Detention
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      • Responding to Crises in the Horn
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      • In Their Presence: Debates on the dignity, display, and ownership of human remains
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Prison

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New Occasional Paper: Ending Solitary Isolation

January 11, 2022January 12, 2022 Lisa Avery 1494 Views 0 Comment Criminal Justice, Massachusetts, Prison, Solitary Confinement

Is it within reach in Massachusetts? By Bridget Conley

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Human Rights and Justice Prison 

Snapshots of the early pandemic in U.S. prisons

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Bridget Conley 1624 Views 0 Comment human rights, Prison, US

Beginning in early April 2020, a group of Tufts-affiliated researchers began work with the World Peace Foundation to track COVID

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Photo of Chowchilla Valey State Prison through barbed wire
Gender New Publication Prison 

COVID-19 in Women’s Prisons

October 13, 2020March 4, 2021 Bridget Conley 1943 Views COVID 19, Gender, Prison

COVID-19 and the policies designed to counter it in American prisons pose distinct medical, emotional, psychological, and economic threats for incarcerated women and their families.

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Human Rights and Justice Prison Program 

New York COVID-19 in detention

June 15, 2020November 2, 2020 Bridget Conley 2325 Views 0 Comment COVID 19, Prison, U.S.

Background on Data | Federal | State Prisons | County Jails | ICE | Juvenile (Updated June 15, 2020) Background–the

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Human Rights and Justice Prison Program 

Louisiana COVID-19 in Detention

June 12, 2020November 2, 2020 Bridget Conley 2042 Views 0 Comment COVID 19, Prison, U.S.

Background on Data | Federal | State Prisons | Parish Jails | ICE | Juvenile (Updated June 12, 2020) Overview

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Prison Program 

California COVID-19 in detention

June 11, 2020November 2, 2020 Bridget Conley 2230 Views 0 Comment COVID 19, Prison, U.S.

Background on Data | Federal | State Prisons | County Jails | ICE (Updated June 12, 2020) Overview In this

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Prison Program 

Michigan COVID-19 in Detention

May 17, 2020June 18, 2020 Bridget Conley 1950 Views 0 Comment COVID 19, Prison

Background on Data | Federal | DOC | County Jails and ICE | Juvenile | Resources Overview Below you can

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Illinois COVID-19 in Detention

May 4, 2020June 15, 2020 Bridget Conley 2152 Views 0 Comment COVID 19, Prison

Background on Data | Federal | DOC | County Jails | ICE | Juvenile | Resources (Updated June 15, 2020)

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Pre-COVID-19 MA DOC

April 20, 2020May 17, 2020 Bridget Conley 934 Views 0 Comment COVID 19, Prison

Overview of DOC facilities and the pre-COVID 19 population (by Sept. 30, 2019).   Facility Abbrev. Location Average daily population

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Photo: San Quentin, CA Death House, Stephen Tourlentes
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Tracking COVID-19 in Detention

April 18, 2020March 2, 2023 Bridget Conley 4667 Views 0 Comment COVID 19, Prison

Note: image courtesy of Stephen Tourlentes, a Somerville, MA-based artist whose work aims to make detention sites visible. Many American

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