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May 2015

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 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...

April 2015

April 08, 2015

Lullabies from Prison and Other Links

Let's start with this. "Bringing Mothers in Prison Closer to Their Children, Through Music": Mothers...

April 02, 2015

When Inmates Write the History of Their Own Prison: Slate

reports: Recently, a group of women currently incarcerated at the 142-year-old institution (now called the...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

A Criminal Justice System: Link Round-Up

Depending on how you've calibrated your expectations, some of these might be construed as hopeful!...

March 02, 2015

Voices from the Fire: Medieval Jewish Martyr Laments

Part of my Lenten reading was Susan L. Einbinder's Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

“Governance Feminism” and Sexual Assault on Campuses

this bit leapt out at me but whole thing is worth reading--if I had to...

February 20, 2015

“Inside the Seminary”: Disturbing report

in Commonweal: ...From 2008 through 2010, I was a seminarian in St. Paul, Minneapolis, an...

February 15, 2015

Company That Sells Video Visiting for Prisoners Pushes Jails to Eliminate Face-to-Face Visits

surprise surprise! While Securus is feeling the heat in its phone business, it is moving...

January 2015

January 17, 2015

“The Effect of Police Body Cameras”: One Study

finds really impressive results: The results were that police use of force reports halved on...

January 16, 2015

“Humiliating People With Addiction Is Not Treatment”: Molly Fogel

at Substance.com: I could fill volumes with all that I saw. There were other situations...

January 06, 2015

Radley Balko’s Civil Liberties Predictions for 2015

See if you can guess the sci-fi twist. Sometimes, real life can be stranger than...

January 03, 2015

The Carceral State: Dept of Things That Aren’t Solutions

Three links. Happy New Year! Not a solution: police body cameras: ...Despite the push for...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

Woop Woop, That’s the Sound of… These Links About Policing

and related issues. They're not all completely depressing! "Fallout Grows Over Calif. Chief's Participation in...

December 13, 2014

Links from a Prison Nation

A round-up of stuff I've been reading. "The Protester": Raven Rakia writes a powerful piece...

December 05, 2014

“Five Stories That Prove Police Are Just As Terrifying in Canada”: Cracked

service journalism: ...So here's a guy who deserves his own movie. In the early morning...

December 05, 2014

Doctors and Policemen

From now on whenever I do or say something awful to somebody I'm gonna tell...

December 04, 2014

“Obama’s Big Idea: Let’s Hike Federal Cop Subsidies”

Walter Olson at Cato: President Obama’s newly announced police-reform package lives up to one’s worst...

November 2014

November 15, 2014

“Duped By Medill Innocence Project, Milwaukee Man Now Free”: Journal-Sentinel

reports: The first time I wrote about Alstory Simon, then a Milwaukee north sider, was...

November 03, 2014

No-Fly Zone Around Ferguson Was Totally Just to Keep Out the Press

I'm sure you're shocked: The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

“The Gift Shop of the Dead”: I Visit the Museum of Crime and Punishment

for AmSpec: For the past twelve years I’ve volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center serving...

October 20, 2014

From “Infinite Jest”

[Gately's] respected and well-liked by almost all the residents, which the House Manager says causes...

October 09, 2014

Families of Miss. Inmates Pay Protection Money to Gangs and Guards to Keep Their Relatives Safe: Clarion-Ledger

reports: Families have paid thousands of dollars in "protection money" to inmates, gangs and guards...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Good Cop: Radley Balko on Joseph McNamara

here: It’s a sad irony that we’ve lost Joseph McNamara just as the country has...

September 12, 2014

“Doctors Say Arizona Prisons Mocked Sick Inmates, Left Stroke Victims in Soiled Diapers for Weeks”

I post these now and then but keep in mind that this is like the...

September 02, 2014

“Hard Questions We’re Not Asking Pope Francis”: John L. Allen, Jr

item #2: Sex abuse is another front. An exception came with an Aug. 24 piece...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

No Werewolf But the Class Werewolf: Short movie reviews

The Anniversary: Bette Davis as hell-matriarch in red eyepatch shaped like a teardrop. Swings wildly...

August 20, 2014

“Another Mom Thrown in Jail for Letting Kids Play in Park”: Reason

I know I say this all the time, but what really gets to me is...