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October 16, 2018
Rethinking Prison, From the Inside Out
Changing the institutional culture of incarceration could entail a social consensus that locking people up is never the ideal way to resolve social problems.
Michelle Chen
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October 2, 2018
NYC Prosecutors Are Stoking Fear About the Mass Bailout, but Their Arguments Don’t Add Up
District attorneys’ comments belie the true purpose of bail in New York and ignore the safety risks of jail itself.
John Pfaff
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August 20, 2018
To Fight Mass Incarceration, We Need to Decriminalize Trauma
At Homeboy Industries, career, education, and mental-health services are creating a way out of poverty and violence.
Robert Greenwald
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August 16, 2018
The Democratic Insurgency Is Winning the War of Ideas
Some of its candidates have won, others have lost. But the movement is succeeding where it counts.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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July 13, 2018
‘As Long As Solitary Exists, They Will Find a Way to Use It’
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.
Victoria Law
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June 22, 2018
Want to Reduce the Number of People in Prison? Stop Sentencing So Many People to Prison.
How sentencing reform could drastically reduce the number of people behind bars in California.
Scott Graves and Steven Bliss
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June 19, 2018
Making Menstrual Health a Global Issue
Across the world, women are demanding access to feminine-hygiene products to lead full, productive lives.
Michelle Chen
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May 29, 2018
By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50
The criminal-justice system is failing to deal with our aging prison population in a humane way.
Michelle Chen
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March 22, 2018
Hey, Democrats Are Actually Running to Win!
Joan Walsh on the Democrats’ new strategy, Amy Wilentz on Ivanka, and Anna Deavere Smith on the school-to-prison pipeline.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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March 21, 2018
How Charles Koch Is Helping Neo-Confederates Teach College Students
The Koch Foundation is often praised for its higher-ed funding, but the money is going to some radical professors.
Alex Kotch