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From Waterboarding to Water Curing: Gitmo Detainee Sues Over Force-Feeding
Military protocols for force-feeding prisoners have been knowingly altered to inflict superfluous suffering.
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How Does Yasiin Bey’s Mathematics Add Up Now?
How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song “Mathematics” changed in the 15 years since the song's release?
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What If California Spent As Much On Education As It Does On Prisons?
In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …
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From Fallujah to the San Fernando Valley, Police Use Analytics to Target “High-Crime” Areas
Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …
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A Modern Mode of Punishment
Solitary confinement is torture - and it's not benefitting anyone in society. So, why does it continue to be used?
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A New Form of Homicide in Canada’s Prisons: The Case of Ashley Smith
The death of a Canadian teen who strangled herself in a Canadian prison was ruled a homicide in a coroner's inquest. Is this a new form of killing by …
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Angela Davis on Prison Abolition and the War on Drugs
Davis’s work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced social movements across generations.
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Psychology Association’s Torture Link Fails “Do-No-Harm” Ethics
Two psychologists deplore the decision by the American Psychological Association to continue to condone the profession's involvement in prisoner abuse at Guantanamo.
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Mass Incarceration: Are the Feds Charting a New Path?
Eric Holder's argument for reconsideration of felon disenfranchisement laws and reductions in mandatory minimum sentences is a positive sign.
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Movement Building and Challenging Mass Incarceration
While any effort to stop mass incarceration must be expansive in scope and size, it ultimately has to be accessible to those directly affected.