Emily Nagisa Keehn

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Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs, Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego

The institution’s west dormitory is depicted in this 1942 photograph. Scudder demanded that no walls be erected on the prison grounds. AP Photo

June 14, 2019

Emily Nagisa Keehn, Harvard University and Dana Walters, Harvard University

Scudder’s approach was grounded in trust and mutual respect. There would be no guards, no weapons, no walls and no uniforms.

Exercise equipment in a yard outside the East Block for condemned prisoners at San Quentin State Prison in California. Reuters/Stephen Lam

January 31, 2018

Emily Nagisa Keehn, Harvard University and J. Wesley Boyd, Harvard University

Mass incarceration harms the health of prisoners, their families and the people who work in detention centers.