incarceration Archive
The power of data to combat denial and distortion is dramatically illustrated in “The Shame of Our Prisons: New Evidence,” a review of studies carried in the October 24 issue of the New York Review of Books by David Kaiser, chair of …
When I was a child growing up in Kentucky, my father made regular visits − usually at night − to the local jail to provide medical care to inmates. In one way or another, substances were the root cause of …
Declaring in a speech Monday to the American Bar Association that “widespread incarceration at the federal, state, and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable”, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a number of policy directives aimed at winding down the …
Jerry O’Neil, the Republican legislator from Montana is putting forth a bill requesting that corporal punishment comes back as an alternative to jail time. Now I know that all fashions eventually come back, and it’s only a matter of time …
