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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Activists protest outside the Cook County Jail calling for the mass release of incarcerated prisoners, April 7.

As Cook County Jail cases balloon, activists advocate for inmates

April 12, 2020

The nation’s largest known source of coronavirus infections lies around 25 miles from Northwestern’s Evanston campus. As of Saturday evening, 304 inmates at Cook County Jail have tested positive...

Jennifer Lackey, the director of Northwestern Prison Education Program, has been teaching courses at Stateville for six years.

Northwestern Prison Education Program receives $1 million grant

February 23, 2020

The Northwestern Prison Education Program received a $1 million grant to expand educational opportunities for incarcerated people. The program began in 2018 and continues to offer courses for college credit...

“Stateville Calling” shares the stories of elderly inmates and the push to re-institute parole in Illinois.

Northwestern Prison Education Programs hosts ‘Stateville Calling’ screening and Q&A

January 8, 2020

The Northwestern Prison Education Program hosted a documentary screening and Q&A panel on prison programming Tuesday in Harris Hall. “Stateville Calling” explores issues of justice, rehabilitation...

Neal Sáles-Griffin speaks at TEDxNorthwesternU. TEDxNorthwesternU is one of the few TEDx talks in the country entirely run by student

TEDxNorthwesternU spotlights the ‘visions and voices’ of Northwestern community

April 28, 2019
The TEDxNorthwesternU conference is one of many TEDx events that are unaffiliated with official TED Conferences but share a similar format and are provided a free license by the TED organization. Executive director Eileen Chen told The Daily that TEDxNorthwesternU is one of the few completely student-run TEDx events in the country.
Philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey leads a class at Stateville Correctional Center. Lackey and One Book One Northwestern volunteers visited the prison Wednesday to lead a discussion with inmates on “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Stateville inmates draw parallels between prison life, dystopian fiction at One Book event

February 21, 2019

CREST HILL, Ill. — In “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, women in the dystopian society of Gilead are stripped of their power, left without control over their lives and bodies. Demetrice...

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