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Mass incarceration
Mass incarceration news and analysis from The Nation
November 12, 2018
In letters compiled by the American Prison Writing Archive, inmates share accounts of suicide, friendship, and solitary confinement.
October 16, 2018
Changing the institutional culture of incarceration could entail a social consensus that locking people up is never the ideal way to resolve social problems.
August 9, 2018
Mapping the corporations and firms with stakes in our jails, prisons, and immigrant-detention centers.
July 31, 2018
The movement that is trying to think beyond prisons as a tool to solve society’s problems.
July 13, 2018
Five years after he helped launch the largest-ever prison hunger strike, Todd Ashker is back in isolation. And he’s not the only one.
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May 17, 2018
Amy Wilentz on the American embassy in Israel, Rachel Kushner on The Mars Room , and Patricia J. Williams on the legacy of lynching.
March 22, 2018
Law schools are trying to address this chronic underfunding, but there needs to be a broader rallying cry.
March 9, 2018
How the president has changed the “law and order” debate.
February 28, 2018
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, from Philly to Kansas City and beyond.
February 22, 2018
It’s time for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to live up to his pledge and cut short more prison sentences.
