Inside a Radical Experiment to Transform the Lives of Incarcerated Women by Mattie Kahn

A new prison unit aims to reduce recidivism in Connecticut. But can it become the standard nationwide? Glamour.com traveled to York Correctional Institution to find out.
Two pilot programs are called TRUE and WORTH.  The seeds for TRUE and WORTH were planted in 2015. That summer, the Vera Institute of Justice , a nonprofit that studies and hopes to shape criminal justice reform, invited Connecticut State Commissioner of Corrections Scott Semple and Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy to join an on-site tour of German prisons, which bear little resemblance to those in the United States. Read the entire article here.