Subject: Corrections/Criminal Justice
Incendiary: the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling
Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall — for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters […]
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The black and the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America’s law enforcement
Matthew Horace was a law enforcement officer at the federal and local levels for twenty-eight years, working in nearly every state in the country. Yet […]
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American prison: a reporter’s undercover journey into the business of punishment
A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our […]
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Start here: a road map to reducing mass incarceration
While Start Here’ offers no silver bullets, it does put forth a suite of proven reforms – from alternatives to bail to diversion programs for […]
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Decarcerating America: from mass punishment to public health
Mass incarceration will end–there is an emerging consensus that we’ve been locking up too many people for too long. But with more than 2.2 million […]
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Chokehold: policing black men
Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like […]
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Blind injustice: a former prosecutor exposes the psychology and politics of wrongful convictions
In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent Mark Godsey takes us inside the frailties of the human mind as […]
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Insane: America’s criminal treatment of mental illness
An expose of the mental-health crisis in America’s courts and prisons reveals that nearly half of the nation’s inmates are actually afflicted by a psychiatric […]
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Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
Susan Burton’s world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without […]
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Crime, media, and reality : examining mixed messages about crime and justice in popular media
Garcia and Arkerson look at the influence of crime news and true crime television series that prevent the public from distinguishing pure entertainment from the […]
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