Mass Incarceration

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  7/29/2020
  

  Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

  Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/2/2020
  

  How Today’s Protests Compare to 1968, Explained by a Historian

  The Pulitzer Prize winning historian and President of the Urban History Association: "If there’s nothing else I’d love for your readership to think of, it’s this: If you have 75+ cities burning, what does it say that from the leadership at every level, the only response has been more police?"

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/29/2020
  

  The Minneapolis Uprising in Context

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  It's necessary to understand anti-police rebellion as a form of political protest among people without the resources to express discontent in more socially accepted ways. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4/16/2020
  

  “Prisons Are Microcosms of the Broader Society”: An Interview with Heather Ann Thompson

  "The COVID-19 outbreak is essentially a reaping of what we’ve sown with mass incarceration, from a public health perspective."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/16/2020
  

  An Epicenter of the Pandemic Will Be Jails and Prisons, if Inaction Continues

  by Amanda Klonsky

  How will we prevent incarcerated people and those who work in these institutions from becoming ill and spreading the virus?

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• 1/26/20
  

  “Who’s Responsible For What’s Happening at Parchman?": A Historical Analysis of Mississippi’s Prisons

  by Michael Murphy

  These recent deaths at Parchman have a long historical tradition in Mississippi state-run institutions and are linked to underfunding and lack of support by the state government.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/17/20
  

  The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’

  by Michelle Alexander

  From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial.

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• SOURCE: LA Review of Books
  12/13/19
  

  A New Kind of Bondage

  by Jason S. Sexton

  TONY PLATT’S Beyond These Walls provides a relentless critique of the United States’s carceral regime, prompting us to rethink how criminal justice institutions operate.

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• 11/24/19
  

  The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think

  by Jeff Forret

  The incarceration of African Americans did not begin suddenly with the end of the Civil War. Confinement functioned as a punishment during bondage as well.

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• SOURCE: Michigan News
  10/18/19
  

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson sees Detroit as central for carceral reform

  We’re poised for positive change with incredible energy to make our criminal justice system more just, and nowhere are we seeing that more than in Detroit. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/4/19
  

  Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Interviews LaShawn Harris and Max Felker-Kantor

  by AAIHS Editors

  Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

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• 8/20/19
  

  Jeff Sessions's Troubling Legacy

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Unfortunately, Sessions’ ideas and policies live on through Trump adviser Stephen Miller.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
  Accessed 8/20/19
  

  Historian Elizabeth Hinton Profiled in Harvard Magazine: Color and Incarceration

  Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.

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• 7/21/19
  

  The History of the American System of Interrogation

  by Donald E. McInnis

  Were the Central Park Five confessions a freak accident? No: every day, adults and juveniles falsely confess to serious crimes they did not commit. Why? 

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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.