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Is Oklahoma’s mass commutation of prisoners too small to make a difference?

The release of nearly 500 inmates in Oklahoma this week was not enough, says Natasha Frost, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern. “About half the population of state prisons are people who commit violent crimes,” she says. “Until we’re willing to do something about those offenders, we’re not going to make a major difference in prison populations.”
- by Emily Arntsen November 5, 2019
This job has a high suicide rate. She wants to get to the bottom of the problem.

More correctional officers in Massachusetts take their own lives than anywhere else in the country. Northeastern professor Natasha Frost and her research partner Carlos Monteiro are in the midst of a four-year probe into the well-being of officers at the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
- by Khalida Sarwari December 19, 2018
Could new federal sentencing policy increase nation’s prison population?

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently ordered federal prosecutors to charge criminal suspects with the most serious offense they can prove, replacing comparatively lenient guidelines issued by longtime Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder. We asked associate professor Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, to discuss the policy’s potential impact on public safety and the nation’s prison population.
- by Jason Kornwitz May 23, 2017
3Qs: Will states follow Feds’ lead on phasing out private prisons?

The Justice Department will be phasing out the use of private prisons, citing safety concerns as well as their lack of rehabilitative services. We asked Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert, to explain how this directive might affect for-profit prisons at the state level and whether the presidential election could impact the DOJ’s new policy.
- by Jason Kornwitz August 22, 2016
3Qs: Why for-profit prisons are on the rise

Private prisons are a particularly hot topic these days, the setting of the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black and the subject of a recent 35,000-word Mother Jones exposé. Here, Natasha Frost, associate professor in Northeastern’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, explains how for-profit prisons are changing the criminal justice system.
- by Jason Kornwitz July 14, 2016
Orange is the New Black is back, and ‘timely,’ says Northeastern researcher

Only 6.7 percent of federal inmates in America’s prisons are female, according to April 2015 data from the Federal Bureau of…
- by Greg St. Martin June 12, 2015

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