THE MOVEMENT OF MEDITATION REPLACING DETENTION IN SCHOOLS

THE MOVEMENT OF MEDITATION REPLACING DETENTION IN SCHOOLS

Mike Langenright
Education, National News

The students in detention at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore aren’t staring at white walls—they’re meditating and practicing yoga as part of the Holistic Me after-school program. Here’s how the project, created by the Holistic Life Foundation, works: Holistic Me hosts 120 male and female students in a program that runs from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and involves yoga, breathing exercises and meditative activities. Disruptive students are brought to the Mindful Moment Room for breathing practices and discussion with a counselor and are instructed on how to manage their emotions.

Juvenile Justice: An Examination of Disparities in Dispositions

Juvenile Justice: An Examination of Disparities in Dispositions

Mike Langenright
Reading Recommendations, Research Topics

The present study tests the utility of status characteristics and expectation states theory in the context of the juvenile court. The theory contends that there is dispositional certainty when case related factors are consistently rated serious or nonserious; the severity of the sanction will reflect the seriousness of the case. However, the likelihood of sentencing disparities based on individual characteristics (e.g., race and SES) increases as case related factors become increasingly inconsistent, with some rated serious and others rated nonserious.

Why Gov. Jerry Brown (D-California) is staking so much on overhauling prison parole

Why Gov. Jerry Brown (D-California) is staking so much on overhauling prison parole

Mike Langenright
National News, Criminal Justice News, Juvenile Justice News

Few California voters likely know much, if anything, about the state Board of Parole Hearings — from the qualifications of the 12 commissioners to their success in opening the prison gates for only those who can safely return to the streets.

And yet Gov. Jerry Brown’s sweeping overhaul of prison parole, Proposition 57, is squarely a question of whether those parole officials should be given additional latitude to offer early release to potentially thousands of prisoners over the next few years.

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