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John Irwin

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

January 5, 2010 Take from an email from The Sentencing Project John Irwin The Sentencing Project joins the criminal justice reform community in mourning the loss of our board member, friend and colleague, John Irwin, who died on January 3rd in San Francisco at the age of 80. John Irwin was proud to be a "convict criminologist" and advocate for social justice. Hardly typical Irwin's path to academia was hardly typical, beginning with a five-year prison term for armed robbery in 1952 in Soledad Prison. During his time in prison he earned 24 college credits through a university extension program, the kind of programming that he would later note had been all but eliminated in most prison systems today. Upon his release he received a B.A. from UCLA and then earned his Ph...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).