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Changing the experience of incarceration to one that is more constructive and humane is part of a new, dignity-first approach ...

Diann Rust-Tierney is an associate professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and a national legal and legislative policy expert with more than 40 ...