op-ed in the times on sex offender regulation
Good editorial in the Times today: Of all the places that sexual predators could end up after prison, the worst is out of sight, away from the scrutiny and treatment that could prevent them from...
View Articleharcourt in the times
One of my committee members, Bernard Harcourt, has an op-ed in the times today on mental illness and incarceration: However, prisons are not the only institutions that seem to have this effect. In a...
View Articlenyt editorial: 2010 census should count prisoners
from the editorial in the times: The Census Bureau typically uses the decennial census to test data-collection methods that become routine later on. The 2010 census should include a test run at...
View Articletalk about a bad idea
This is one of the worst ideas I’ve heard of in a while: A bipartisan effort in Ohio’s legislature could make the state the first to require convicted violent sex offenders and child predators to place...
View Articlearea 2 torture, the olymipcs, and zizeck
Zizeck gets Hegel and Agemben in here, talking about torture in the Times this is what I consider a good reason to say no to the olympics in chicago, from the Reader
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eastern state
Some very interesting photos of Eastern State Penitentiary from the very interesting philly-based librarian 18brumaire.
View Articlesomething to keep in mind
Since HRC is explicitly invoking the struggle for suffrage in her attempt to pretend she hadn’t already signed on to the punitive DNC sanctions levied against Michigan and Florida, it seems like fair...
View Articleclemency in illinois
I woke up friday morning to this story on the radio about an important lawsuit being filed in illinois right now to speed up clemency decisions. Give it a listen.
View Articlerod
He might be corrupt, crazy, or just egomaniacal, but on this point at least, he’s completely and totally right: Afford me the same rights that you and your children have. The presumption of innocence....
View Articleon re-entry and debt collections
a very nice piece in this week’s new yorker by Jake Halpern captures the nexus of collateral consequences, the difficulties of staying out of jail for formerly incarcerated persons, and the business of...
View Articlejustice stevens
The times covers the upcoming essay by Justice Stevens on the death penalty, which I cannot wait to read. The essay appears to be a review of David Garland’s new book on the death penalty. Kudos to...
View Article“Prisoners Dilemma” in the Prospect
A nice piece in the American Prospect on the “Prisoners Dilemma” – not the game theory one, but the real one. Now, with the rising costs of prisons increasingly ruining state budgets and with the...
View ArticleVery Tough Love | This American Life
This is worth an hour of your time, even if it is cliché to link to this american life… this week’s episode on a single drug court in Georgia is pretty amazingly well reported. for further reading see...
View Articlenew report on juvenile incarceration
from the annie e. casey foundation, comes a new and importantreport on the necessity of reducing juvenile incarceration.
View Articlethe souls of white folk
“Is not this the record of present America? Is not this its headlong progress? Are we not coming more and more, day by day, to making the statement, ‘I am white,’ the one fundamental tenet of our...
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