Natasha Frost Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice n.frost@neu.edu 617.373.4076 Expertise effects of incarceration and reentry, punitiveness Natasha Frost in the Press The Washington Examiner Jeff Sessions again connects lighter drug sentences to a rise in crime Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert in the Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said in an interview following the new policy “[t]here is no solid evidence that mandatory sentences — or even harsher sentences more generally — have had a substantial effect on crime rates.” Advocates: Mass. unlawfully isolates mentally ill inmates Across the country, there is a strong movement to limit the use of segregation in prisons, especially for juveniles and people with mental illness, said Natasha A. Frost, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University who coauthored a recent paper on segregation for the National Institute of Justice. Change is driven […] Boston Magazine Big house, big mouth Before Aaron Hernandez ended up in his jail, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson was not particularly aware of TMZ. Leaning against the wall of what, until recently, had been the former Patriot’s cell, the 60-year-old sheriff says, “I do know it now.” The celebrity gossip site has all but had Hodgson on speed dial since […] U.S. Prison Populations Decline, Reflecting New Approach to Crime <nyt_text> The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment. The number of inmates in […] Natasha Frost for Northeastern Global News Is Oklahoma’s mass commutation of prisoners too small to make a difference? Is Oklahoma’s mass commutation of prisoners too small to make a difference? The release of nearly 500 inmates in Oklahoma this week was not enough, says Natasha Frost, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern. “About half the population of state prisons are people who commit violent crimes,” she says. “Until we’re willing to do something about those offenders, we’re not going to make a major difference in prison populations.” This job has a high suicide rate. She wants to get to the bottom of the problem. This job has a high suicide rate. She wants to get to the bottom of the problem. More correctional officers in Massachusetts take their own lives than anywhere else in the country. Northeastern professor Natasha Frost and her research partner Carlos Monteiro are in the midst of a four-year probe into the well-being of officers at the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Could new federal sentencing policy increase nation’s prison population? Could new federal sentencing policy increase nation’s prison population? Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently ordered federal prosecutors to charge criminal suspects with the most serious offense they can prove. 3Qs: Will states follow Feds’ lead on phasing out private prisons? 3Qs: Will states follow Feds’ lead on phasing out private prisons? The Justice Department will be phasing out the use of private prisons, citing safety concerns as well as their lack of rehabilitative services. We asked Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert, to explain how this directive might affect for-profit prisons at the state level and whether the presidential election could impact the DOJ’s new policy. 3Qs: Why for-profit prisons are on the rise 3Qs: Why for-profit prisons are on the rise Private prisons are a particularly hot topic these days, the setting of the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black and the subject of a recent 35,000-word Mother Jones exposé. Here, Natasha Frost, associate professor in Northeastern’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, explains how for-profit prisons are changing the criminal justice system. Orange is the New Black is back, and ‘timely,’ says Northeastern researcher Orange is the New Black is back, and ‘timely,’ says Northeastern researcher Only 6.7 percent of federal inmates in America’s prisons are female, according to April 2015 data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. And Piper Chapman is one of them. Well, not exactly. Chapman is the main character in Orange is the New Black, the hit Netflix series set in a fictional federal women-only prison. The third […] Northeastern’s Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research Receives State Grant to Study Recidivism Rates Northeastern’s Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research Receives State Grant to Study Recidivism Rates BOSTON – May 27, 2008 – The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office is funding a one-year study at Northeastern University’s Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research that will examine recidivism rates of inmates released from the Middlesex House of Correction at Billerica. Natasha Frost, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, is the […]
The Washington Examiner Jeff Sessions again connects lighter drug sentences to a rise in crime Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert in the Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said in an interview following the new policy “[t]here is no solid evidence that mandatory sentences — or even harsher sentences more generally — have had a substantial effect on crime rates.”
Advocates: Mass. unlawfully isolates mentally ill inmates Across the country, there is a strong movement to limit the use of segregation in prisons, especially for juveniles and people with mental illness, said Natasha A. Frost, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University who coauthored a recent paper on segregation for the National Institute of Justice. Change is driven […]
Boston Magazine Big house, big mouth Before Aaron Hernandez ended up in his jail, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson was not particularly aware of TMZ. Leaning against the wall of what, until recently, had been the former Patriot’s cell, the 60-year-old sheriff says, “I do know it now.” The celebrity gossip site has all but had Hodgson on speed dial since […]
U.S. Prison Populations Decline, Reflecting New Approach to Crime <nyt_text> The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment. The number of inmates in […]