Pauline Rogers

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Author Bio

Pauline Rogers is a longtime criminal justice reform advocate and founder of the RECH Foundation, which supports formerly incarcerated people reentering society. She is a Transformative Justice Fellow with The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship.

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April 24, 2025

Time For Change: Rethink Harsh Sentencing in America

Changing one’s mind is often framed as indecision. But as Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent reversal on childhood measles vaccines shows, it can also be an act of leadership. Faced…

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March 29, 2025

Stormy Weather: Our Climate as a Metaphor for Historic Injustice

As recent wildfires in North Carolina add to the deadly storms that recently tore across the South and parts of the Midwest with tornadoes and heavy winds, killing 40 people and leaving devastation in their wake, it…

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December 9, 2024

Mississippians With Felony Convictions Should Have Full Voting Rights

In the so-called “Bible Belt” of America, where organized religion often teaches that Jesus died for all, an unsettling contradiction lingers—both in faith and law. The U.S. Constitution begins with the words “We the people,”…