Did you know that Florida prisons do not have air conditioning? The Beat the Heat Event allows people to experience what it’s like to sit in a hot prison cell during the summer in South Florida.

Exchange for Change has partnered with the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice to bring their signature prison visitation program to South Florida prisons.  The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice seeks to change the public’s perception of the criminal justice system by becoming proximate with the humanity of incarcerated people. Register for a visit!

Team meeting for Tirando Muros at Clinica Condesa in Mexico City.

An inside look at the manuscript writing process with a team of amazing women.

Congratulations to lab member Cassandra Michel for presenting findings from her UM Honors Thesis entitled “Exploring Attitudes, Experiences, and Perceptions among BIPOC Students and a University Police Department.”

Congratulations to lab member Oshea Johnson for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation!

Congratulations to lab member Felicia Casanova for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation!

Talking about the book Hear Us: Writing from the Inside During the Time of COVID edited by Exchange for Change at the National Conference on Higher Education in Prison (NCHEP).

Lab members Minji Kim and Sofia Mohommad presented research at the annual conference of the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health! We are still getting work out there in a virtual world.

Lab member Minji Kim published a FIRST AUTHOR article in Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. This paper uses data from the Pregnancy in Prison Statistics study (PI: Carolyn Sufrin) and finds that there were 71 admissions of pregnant adolescents reported over 12 months from participating JRS. At the time of the census, six out of the 183 female adolescents (3.3%) were pregnant. Eight pregnancies ended while in custody. Of these, one pregnancy was a live full-term birth, four were miscarriages, and three were induced abortions. Administrative policies and services varied among the JRS. For example, all JRS had a prenatal care provider on-site, whereas two JRS helped cover the costs of abortions. Much more work is needed to understand the complexities of health care needs of justice-involved pregnant youth during and after their incarceration. READ MORE.