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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The front entrance of Allegheny County Jail in Downtown.

Opinion | Our community deserves better than the Allegheny County Jail

By India Krug, Senior Staff Columnist • February 16, 2022
Conditions in Allegheny County Jail are unacceptable and the product of institutional racism.
The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion hosted its “Structures of Inequity: A Conversation on Social Justice” event on Tuesday as part of Pitt’s annual Diversity Forum.

‘Their loved ones should still be here’: Diversity Forum panelists discuss injustices within American justice system

By Grace Stringer, For The Pitt News • July 30, 2021
Pitt’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion hosted the panel “Structures of Inequity: A Conversation on Social Justice'' as the first event at this year’s Diversity Forum on Tuesday.
(Illustration by Abby Katz | Staff Illustrator)

Off-year election marks desire for criminal justice reform

By Ben Sheppard | Columnist • November 16, 2017

Despite our national representatives’ inability to agree on anything, the Nov. 7 off-year elections showed that the nation at large is united by at least one thing — criminal justice reform. Pittsburghers...

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