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Fifteen Things That We Relearned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2013
The engine of the prison industrial complex unfortunately kept on chugging in 2013.
A Rapper’s Last Words Before Going to Jail
On December 5th Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 stood trial for performing his song
Brave New Foundation’s Series on Prison Profiteering
Each part of this series by the Brave New Foundation exposes an aspect of corruption in the American prison systems in the name of profit.
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The Play’s the Thing
The mass incarceration of primarily poor people of color is one of the most shameful mass injustices committed in the United States.
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Grace and the Cycle of Abuse
Grace is the good we do not deserve. A society without grace, a society without mercy, a society that knows only vengeance, is a horrid land of violence and …
Forced Guilty Pleas in Drug Cases: Threat of Draconian Sentences Means Few Willing to Risk Trial
Since drug defendants rarely prevail at trial, it is not surprising that 97 percent of them decide to plead guilty.
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What Didn’t Kill Mandela Made Him Stronger
Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels.
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California Ships Prisoners Out of State to “Reduce” Its Prison Population
In response to a Supreme Court mandate to reduce its penitentiary population, California is shipping prisoners to private correctional facilities in other states.
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Why Fund the Library When You Could Build a New Jail?
Last Saturday, residents of the southern Lousiana parish of Lafourche voted down a measure that would have rededicated library funding to the construction of a proposed $25 million jail.
Bipartisan Bill to Reform Mandatory Minimums Introduced in US House, As Companion to Bipartisan Senate Bill
Research has shown that nonviolent, low-level drug offenders have contributed significantly to the dramatic rise in incarceration in the last four decades.