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The Adolescent Lockup (Jails and Prisons, Politics, Society)

Not so long ago politicians campaigned by kissing babies. Today, they
lock children in jail.

Bruce Shapiro

Blogs

Tell the FCC: Prison Phone Companies Shouldn't Profit Off Indigent Families
Take Action

Prison phone companies like Global Tel* Link get away with charging prisoners exorbitant rates just to keep in touch with their families. Tell the Federal Communications Commission to end this predatory practice. 

October 1, 2013
AFL-CIO Pledges Prison Reform, Partnerships and Accountable Organizing Plans
Josh Eidelson

At its quadrennial convention, the nation’s top labor federation pledged to combat mass incarceration.

September 10, 2013
The Real Story Behind 'Orange is the New Black'
Christopher Hayes

Netflix’s new hit show aims to address inequality in the application of criminal justice. 

August 14, 2013
It's So Not 'Oz': Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black'
Salamishah Tillet

Orange Is the New Black appears to traffic in tired class and race stereotypes, but it also, episode by episode, tries to challenge some of those assumptions by filling in the women’s stories through flashbacks and empathy.

July 23, 2013
More Questions for James Comey
Rick Perlstein

Obama’s Republican nominee for FBI chief is much less than the civil liberties hero he appears to be.

June 24, 2013
Time to Go Beyond Judging Rihanna and Chris Brown
Laura Flanders

Nineteen years after the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, we need to reauthorize. We also need to do more.

February 15, 2013
Watching 'The House I Live In' on Rikers Island
Liliana Segura

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is on a mission to show his Sundance-award winning movie, The House I Live In, to prisoners across the country. On a Friday in December, he went to New Yor}ks biggest jail.

December 21, 2012
It's Time to End the War on Drugs
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The trillion-dollar crusade isn’t making America drug-free—it’s making us the world's most incarcerated population. 

November 20, 2012
Dream Defenders Will Address School-to-Prison Pipeline During the Last Presidential Debate
Allison Kilkenny

A coalition of students, youth and alumni, who organized in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s murder, have planned a protest in Boca Raton, Florida, to coincide with the last presidential debate in order to #changethedebate.

October 22, 2012
Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (7/4/12)
StudentNation

Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.

July 5, 2012
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