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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/3/2022
  

  NY Mayor's Proposal to Lock Up Mentally Ill Has Long History

  by Elliott Young

  The impulse to heal the mentally ill has long battled the impulse to lock them up as a threat to the society. Eric Adams is trying to do the latter while claiming to do the former. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/23/2022
  

  Educational Aid for Prisoners Works. Why Do Politicians Reject It?

  by Adrian Cox and Kate L. Flach

  Making imprisoned people eligible for federal education grants was shown to be successful, but was ended by the notorious 1994 crime bill. It's time to change course and restore them. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/16/2022
  

  Smuggled Recordings Revealed the Harshness of British Internment Policies in Northern Ireland

  by Jack Sheehan

  Tapes secretly recorded in the Long Kesh internment facility, where suspected IRA militants were detained without trial, revealed the degree to which the British government discarded human rights in its crackdown and speak to today's "states of exception."

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  12/14/2021
  

  Introducing “Disciplining The Nation”

  by Matt Guariglia and Charlotte Rosen

  "Rooted in racial slavery, settler colonialism, and U.S. empire, policing and incarceration in the United States were slowly and meticulously built over time for the purpose of subordinating, punishing, and exploiting populations –and historians have the documents to prove it."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/23/2021
  

  Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

  by Ben Austen and Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Tough-on-crime laws that forbid discretionary parole emerged in the 1970s. A historical perspective suggests they've failed, keeping people in prison long after doing so protects society. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/15/2021
  

  Dosing Arkansas Prisoners with Ivermectin Just Latest Incident of Medical Abuse

  by Lydia Crafts

  "News that an Arkansas prison doctor deceived inmates to take Ivermectin as a COVID preventative shows that nonconsensual research and the experimental use of drugs on vulnerable people remain common — despite evidence of its danger and laws designed to prevent it."

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  5/14/2021
  

  I Survived Prison During The AIDS Epidemic. Here’s What It Taught Me About Coronavirus

  by Richard Rivera

  Like the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, imprisoned people at risk of COVID-19 find that suspicion, paranoia and isolation have taken the place of meaningful support. 

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• SOURCE: Jersey Digs
  7/24/2020
  

  Old Jail Could Inspire Youth to Stay Out of Prison — but Only If It Survives

  What better way to enshrine the lessons we’ve learned from decades of mass incarceration than by transforming the remnants of Newark’s first penitentiary into a gathering place — be it a museum or community center — that might bring about the end of a problematic legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  7-2-18
  

  Historians for Prison Abolition

  by Eric Morgenson

  The same companies that house prisoners are also paid by the government to house immigrants, creating a problem that sits at the intersection of race and capitalism.

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  11-3-17
  

  What About the "Lost Children" (and Mothers) of America?

  by Rheann Kelly, Natalie Medley and Christina Kovats

  It’s time for their voices to be heard.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-8-17
  

  America must listen to its prisoners before we make a major mistake

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  We’re in danger of repeating the mistake we made after Attica when we let prison reforms fizzle.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-2-16
  

  Prison History’s Horror and Hope

  by Baz Dreisinger

  From 1949 to 1957, the number of young people under criminal-justice supervision more than doubled.

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• SOURCE: OAH Blog
  6-16-15 (accessed)
  

  Why do we lock up so many people in this country?

  The OAH’s Journal of American History addresses this question in a special June issue.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3-22-15
  

  What happens when inmates write a history of their own prison?

  by Rebecca Onion

  Inmates at America’s oldest women’s prison are writing a history of it—and exploding the myth of its benevolent founders.

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• SOURCE: New Haven Register
  4-8-14
  

  Prison history is central to American history, Yale panel says

  Mass incarceration has become the elephant in the room of modern American history, a panel of historians said Tuesday at Yale University.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-12-13
  

  Prison Memoir of a Black Man in the 1850s

  The manuscript was written by a man named Austin Reed, a prisoner in upstate New York.