{"id":33092,"date":"2022-06-24T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=33092"},"modified":"2022-06-24T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:41:11","slug":"university-researchers-begin-to-study-mississippis-prison-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/24\/university-researchers-begin-to-study-mississippis-prison-system\/","title":{"rendered":"University researchers begin to study Mississippi&#8217;s prison system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)- Mississippi\u2019s prison system will be under a microscope for the next two years by two of the nation\u2019s leading research universities.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Gash, Pepperdine\u2019s president, and \u00a0Dr. Byron Johnson, a criminal justice researcher at Baylor are teaming up to study the changes made to the state\u2019s prisons by Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain.<\/p>\n<p>The research project will include meeting with inmates, corrections officers, and the Commissioner to see how re-entry and seminary programs are improving prisoners\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<p>The research will be compared to Commissioner Cain\u2019s previous work.<\/p>\n<p>Cain\u2019s programs were credited with making a complete turnaround with Louisiana\u2019s Angola Prison, which had a violent reputation.\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (7.6.21) simplesharebuttons.com -->\t<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id){\n\t\t\t\t var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n\t\t\t\t js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";\n\t\t\t\t fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '939291976465084');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcbi.com\/university-researchers-begin-to-study-mississippis-prison-system\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)- Mississippi\u2019s prison system will be under a microscope for the next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33094,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions\/33094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}