Jack Norton<\/a> is a Senior Research Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice, where he works on the In Our Backyards project studying criminalization and incarceration in rural counties and small cities across the United States. His writing and photography has been published in outlets such as The Guardian, New York Review of Books, Spectre Magazine, Verso Books, and Jacobin. He has a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography Specialization) from the CUNY Graduate Center, and he is currently writing a book about the rural prison boom in New York State during the 1980s and 1990s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Jack Norton, Senior Research Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice, will give a talk titled “Why Is Mass Incarceration Booming in the Rural U.S.?” on Thursday, March 10, 5pm-6:30pm, in Gilman 50. Norton will also speak to JHU PhD students as part of the Provost’s Professional Development Innovation Initiative on Friday, March 11, 11am-12:30pm, in Mergenthaler 266. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,95],"tags":[94,101],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}