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Scholarship Recipients 2022

University of Connecticut

After my MSW, my goal is to work in the criminal justice system, practicing social work in a juvenile detention center. I have always been passionate about criminal justice reform and lowering our country’s recidivism rate through rehabilitative practices. Charlotte M. Kinlock Endowment Fund in Social Work.

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Criminal Justice Reform is Not Dead

Beyond Advocacy

Hailed as a bipartisan effort to ease harsh sentences, promote rehabilitation, and reduce recidivism in the federal prison system, The First Step Act lowered sentences by making the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive. I first connected with Dr. Pettus while she was at the Brown School at Washington University in St.