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Articles on Mass incarceration
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Mass incarceration harms the health of prisoners, their families and the people who work in detention centers.
A study of 100,000 convicted felons shows why rethinking parole may be the key to reversing mass incarceration.
As hard-line Pentecostalism spreads across Brazil, some drug traffickers in gang-controlled areas of Rio de Janeiro are using religion as an excuse to attack nonbelievers.
Beginning in the 1990s, all 50 US states and Washington, DC created public sex offender registries. Do they do more to help or hurt?
Latin America’s murder rate is the highest in the world, accounting for one in every four homicides on the planet.
Tupac’s sensitivity, intelligence and creativity confronted the hostile forces that antagonized black youth across the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jeff Sessions wants prosecutors to ‘charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.’ That’s a step back to our failed experiment in mass incarceration.
The White House is pushing for more private prisons. But do the industry’s promised benefits hold up to scrutiny?
The number of prisons in the US swelled between 1970 and 2000, from 511 to nearly 1,663. Here’s the story of why one town in Arkansas welcomed a correction facility.
In Brazilian prisons, overcrowding, corruption and gang infiltration are a combustive combination. But it all started with bad drug policies.
New research from Vanderbilt University looks at the effects of mass incarceration on a little studied population: formerly imprisoned African-American men.
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Baltimore
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Associate Professor, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Research Specialist and PhD Candidate in Urban and Social Policy, The New School
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Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University
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Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs, Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego
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Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor, University of California, Merced
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Senior Lecturer, Center for Study of Human Health, Emory University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Oregon State University
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Co-Director, Columbia University Justice Lab, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University
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Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
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Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard University
