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August 2015

August 22, 2015

“The Supreme Court’s Massive Blind Spot”: The Stories It Knows About Criminal Justice

Radley Balko explains, in a fascinating & depressing piece: ...Each term, the Supreme Court decides...

August 22, 2015

“Slow Poison”: Ezekiel Kweku on a Lifetime of Preparing for Police Violence

...Half an hour later, I stopped for gas in a small town I’d once known....

August 17, 2015

“Eyeglasses with Face Unrecognition to Debut in Japan”: Wall Street Journal

reports: The ultimate disguise for the digital era is set to go on sale in...

August 10, 2015

“The Inmate Who Exposed Florida Prisons’ Culture of Cruelty”: Completely riveting

Miami Herald profile: Harold Hempstead is a man with two conflicting narratives. One is a...

August 04, 2015

Our Enemy the State: Link Roundup

"Obama's Economics Team Is Taking on One of America's Most Underrated Economic Problems": Occupational licensing...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

“Looking Away from Abortion”: Ross Douthat

on the meaning of the Planned Parenthood videos: IN an essay in his 1976 collection,...

July 22, 2015

“Whistleblower Prison Guard Paid the Price for Reporting Abuse”

Sts Processus and Martinian, patrons of prison guards (and jailers of Sts Peter and Paul),...

July 22, 2015

Your Chance to Support Caregiving, Celibate Vocations, A Gorgeous Pooch, AND Libresco’s Birthday!

do a mitzvah, man... I’m a big fan of the blog A Queer Calling, and...

July 20, 2015

“Living with an Ankle Bracelet”: The Marshall Project

personal essay: I cannot sleep. There is a device on my leg. It requires that...

July 18, 2015

“The Best Way to Deal With America’s Incarceration Problem Is Hiding in Plain Sight”: Washington Post

(if by "in plain sight" you mean, in jail) The first of the convoys left Albuquerque...

July 14, 2015

Photographs from Miracle Village, A Florida Town for Sex Offenders

The Guardian writes: ...Sofia Valiente, a quietly spoken 24-year-old photographer who lives one hour’s drive...

July 12, 2015

“The Problem with NYC’s Bail Reform”: The Marshall Project

posts: ...Guilty or innocent, the urge to intervene in the lives of those we shovel...

July 12, 2015

Walter Olson on Ferguson and Oregon Cake Bakers

at Overlawyered: Has anyone noted that the “Ferguson syndrome” of ruinously escalating fines for petty...

July 08, 2015

Baltimore Police Van Sign: “Enjoy Your Ride Cuz We Sure Will”–The Root

for your contempt -> dehumanization file I guess: Just months after Baltimore resident Freddie Gray...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Police Shootings of the Mentally Ill: The Washington Post

from their series on killings by police: ...“I want to shoot the cops,” Page slurred...

June 30, 2015

A Retraction, Re: Marriage. Too Bad, This Bit Had a Good Line in It.

So in an earlier post I wrote this: It's important that marriage--its norms and expectations,...

June 30, 2015

“Army of Moms” On Patrol After Killing: DNAInfo

reports: ENGLEWOOD — An army of mothers started patrolling Englewood on Monday, gathering on corners...

June 29, 2015

Former Baltimore Cop Tweets the Corruption He Saw on the Force

The tweets are here (and as always it's a great mix of violence, systematic racism,...

June 27, 2015

“Doing Whatever It Takes to Create a Prison Garden”: Michele Scott

at the Marshall Project: I am a gardener in prison, if such a thing is...

June 24, 2015

“We Find Corpses: 5 Weird Truths of Cleaning Port-a-Johns”: Cracked, Again

Sorry to do this twice, but their personal-experience articles are such a mixed bag that...

June 24, 2015

“Four Legal Loopholes That Screw You When You’re Poor”: Cracked

rides again. The usual Cracked-related warnings for language and brain-breaking imagery. You're sitting on your...

June 14, 2015

Tomorrow’s Shuttered Prisons and Yesterday’s Shuttered Pools: A Cops and Prisons Link Roundup

"When Bail Is Out of Defendant's Reach, Other Costs Mount": By the time Mr. Torrence...

June 09, 2015

A Little Free Library: Read the Comments!

Via Prince of Petworth: Hi all- I live at this house and it’s my free...

June 09, 2015

From Sarah Ruhl, “100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write”

There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me. Finally I...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

“St Louis Co. Towns Continue to Treat Residents Like ATMs”: Radley Balko

Hey man, people rarely beat on ATMs: ...It isn’t difficult to guess which groups of...

May 29, 2015

“Want to End Mass Incarceration? Stop Blindly Reelecting Your Local Prosecutor”

Something about that headline is very very Voxy, but this article is a good intro...

May 27, 2015

“At Least Two States Let Prisons Charge the Families of Dead Ex-Prisoners for Their Food and Health Care”: Dara Lind

at Vox: Nearly every state lets prisons and jails charge inmates for their own incarceration...

May 27, 2015

Standing in Front of Your Own House (While Black): Washington City Paper Investigates “Incommoding” Arrests

The chitlins were making Alex Dennis sick. Dennis, a 20-year-old with dreadlocks that graze his...

May 23, 2015

Deep Morbid Strawberries: A Summertime Kitchen Adventure

We're supposed to hit 90 for Memorial Day (which I'm thrilled about, though I will...

May 18, 2015

“‘Force is the Best Medicine’: How America Overdosed on Drug Courts”

by Maia Szalavitz: ...If doctors were to deviate this far from the standard of care in...