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Reducing the number of prisoners subjected to solitary confinement

A faster inmate screening process to help focus limited resources, featuring Maaike Helmus.

A corridor of closed prison cell doors
Featuring Maaike Helmus. Students Beyond Grades report.

A faster inmate screening process to help focus limited resources, featuring Maaike Helmus.

Projects like this show how student research can reshape public systems, from justice and housing to civic participation and animal welfare.

Students Beyond Grades exists to record this kind of research and development. The project publishes short reports on work that improves health, community, waste reduction, education and sustainability, whether it is carried out inside formal study or alongside it. If you are working on something similar, you can share your work with the project.

Background reading

For context on this area, see solitary confinement and its effects.