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Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" offers a reality check, writes Fatima Shaik.
Bianca Tylek is no stranger to Wall Street. She started her career there before pivoting to law and eventually founding the national nonprofit Worth Rises.
"The United States is now a world leader when it comes to incarceration," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and co-author ...
How It Works and Who Profits reveals how corporations, investors, and government actors profit from human incarceration, and ...
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies Carlos Martinez is a medical anthropologist, whose work often focuses on the health consequences of policing, incarceration, and deportation.
On this edition of our traveling book club, Galesburg recommends a unique fantasy story, an award winning historical fiction ...
Over 80 attendees filed into the List Art Building on Monday to hear author and award-winning sociologist Brittany Friedman discuss her newest book on racial injustice and mass incarceration.
In tracing Iran’s adoption of modern theories of policing and incarceration since the nineteenth century, Nikpour also maps the political and intellectual history of the country.
Ms. Knox’s 2013 memoir, “Waiting to Be Heard,” recounted the grueling details of her trial and incarceration, written after an Italian appeals court overturned the convictions of Ms. Knox ...
Abstract: This piece is a rough draft of the first chapter of a new book project, which will examine abolitionist movements and theory in a Hemispheric frame. In this chapter, I am putting prison and ...
creating a tangible connection that transcends prison walls. The program, which began 25 years ago, enables parents to choose books, record their reading on CDs, and have the books mailed directly ...