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Repackaging Mass Incarceration
Repackaging Mass Incarceration
by James Kilgore
Since my CounterPunch article in November 2013, which assessed the state of the movement against mass incarceration, the rumblings of change in the criminal justice system have steadily grown louder. Attorney General Eric Holder has continued to stream his mild-mannered critique by raising the ...
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- Alaska Supreme Court Suspends Former Deputy Attorney General, by Christopher Zoukis
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- Habeas Hints: Supreme Court Habeas Review 2014, by Kent Russell
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- Florida: Sheriff’s Office and Medical Provider Pay $1 Million for Prisoner’s Death, by Gary Hunter
- Repackaging Mass Incarceration, by James Kilgore
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- Death Sentences Reversed Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct, by Christopher Zoukis
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Prosecutors Breaking Bad
More from James Kilgore:
- Cages Without Bars Are Widening the Net: The Explosion of Electronic Monitoring, Jan. 1, 2023
- To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up, Nov. 1, 2021
- Imagining a World Without Prisons, April 3, 2018
- "You're Still in Jail": How Electronic Monitoring Is a Shackle on the Movement for Decarceration, Oct. 23, 2017
- After Prisons: A Supervisory State?, Jan. 12, 2017
- Follow the Money: Invisible Investors Seek Big Bucks in Mass Incarceration, Dec. 2, 2015
- Jails: Time to Wake Up to Mass Incarceration in Your Neighborhood, Oct. 26, 2015
- Private Prisons: Just Bit Players in Mass Incarceration, Oct. 21, 2015
- Corporations You’ve Never Heard of are Making Millions from Mass Incarceration, Aug. 28, 2015
- Mental Illness and Jails, Race is Left out of the Equation, July 13, 2015
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