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Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against h...

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I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of t...

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Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

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The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in...

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As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system d...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities atte...

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