Mass Incarceration

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• 3/31/19
  

  E-Carceration: Are Digital Prisons The Future?

  by Christopher Twarowski

  Digital “shackles” have been utilized by the U.S. criminal justice system for more than 30 years but their use has increased a whopping 140 percent throughout the past decade.

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• The Direct Line Between Slavery And Racism In Boston

  by Janna Malamud Smith

  When you live with a false story about your nation’s past ... developing an informed consensus for action becomes extremely difficult.  

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• 4/29/18
  

  The Story of the Largest Slave Auction in American History Proves This

  by Anne C. Bailey

  The weeping time does not end with weeping; it ends with triumph.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2-11-16
  

  The Clintons Aren’t to Blame for Mass Incarceration

  by Leon Neyfakh

  The 1994 crime bill was wrongheaded and draconian. But it didn’t cause the explosion in the prison population.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-16-15 (accessed)
  

  The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

  by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they've failed to reckon with history.