The System is Not Broken, It's Intentional with Dr. Jennifer Ortiz

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Dr. Jennifer Ortiz is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Southeast. Dr. Ortiz earned her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research interests center on structural violence within the criminal justice system with a focus on reentry post-incarceration. Ortiz maintains a firm commitment to civil service and activism. Ortiz currently serves as an executive board member for Mission Behind Bars and Beyond, a Kentucky-based non-profit reentry organization, and as Executive Counselor for the Division of Convict Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. In this episode, the aim was to give the audience a better understanding of how community supervision impacts reentry outcomes. More specifically, Dr. Ortiz discussed the mechanisms that underlie guaranteed return to incarceration. In addition, Dr. ... 

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