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  • Poets & Writers
    The Limits Imposed on Reform: Reginald Dwayne Betts
    August 18, 2017
    | Kyle Dargan
    Find Betts’ writing and share it with those you think may find in it validation and strength, Kyle Dargan advises.
  • Justice
    Hiring the Formerly Incarcerated as a Business Model
    August 9, 2017
    | Jessica Wang
    Fair chance hiring gives businesses dedicated workers and the formerly incarcerated a chance to get beyond stereotypes.
  • Inequality
    What Life Is Like After a Life Sentence
    June 23, 2017
    | Samantha Michaels and Jessica Earnshaw
    After 33 years behind bars, a man struggles with navigating the bus system, grasping the internet and getting a job.
  • Environment
    America's Toxic Prisons
    June 9, 2017
    | Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren and Maureen Nandini Mitra
    The toxic impact of prisons extends far beyond any individual prison.
  • Activism
    Susan Burton, a Modern-Day Harriet Tubman
    May 12, 2017
    | Michelle Alexander
    Reading her life story will change the way you view the world.
  • Justice
    Rikers Might Finally Close — and We Have Organizers to Thank
    April 10, 2017
    | Collier Meyerson
    The infamous jail is the site of dozens of horrifying stories of prisoner mistreatment.
  • Justice
    Crimes and Punishments
    March 31, 2017
    | Donald W. Shriver
    Given our current mass incarceration crisis, one scholar wonders whether we need to reconsider the principle upon which our criminal justice system is founded on in order to make things right.
  • Justice
    Trump's Law-Enforcement Boost Won't Make Us Safer
    March 29, 2017
    | Emily Verdugo
    The Trump administration's recent steps backward provide us with a critical opportunity.
  • Society
    War Culture, Militarism and Racist Violence Under Trump
    December 16, 2016
    | Henry Giroux
    This election brought back the scourge of authoritarianism in the toxic language of hate, humiliation and bigotry — and in the culture of war and violence.
  • Civil Liberties
    Wall Street, Private Prisons 'Licking Their Lips' Over Trump Win
    November 21, 2016
    | Nadia Prupis
    Under Obama, DOJ was set to phase out private detention centers. After Trump's victory, prison corporation stocks skyrocketed.


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