Examining the Conservative Shift from Harsh Justice
Laws, 2015 Recently, a political shift has been observed, in that some political conservatives are now advocating, adjusting, or abandoning draconian drug laws, including mandatory minimums, and funding diversion, re-entry, and drug programs.
Joycelyn Pollock +2 more
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Mass incarceration and cognitive impairment in older adults: Setting a research agenda. [PDF]
J Am Geriatr Soc, 2023 Testa A +4 more
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Economic Impacts of Mass Incarceration on African American Families [PDF]
, 2016 poster abstractMass incarceration refers to the high and growing rate of imprisonment amongst a particular population of people. The problem of mass incarceration is common among African Americans and has greatly affected their economic position and ...
Egunyomi, Ayobami +1 more
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The Mass Incarceration Trauma Framework: A Conceptual Model for Understanding Trauma among Individuals Who Experience Incarceration. [PDF]
Soc Work, 2023 Morrison M.
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Love is in the Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration with Prisoners\u27 Radio [PDF]
, 2018 Building on bell hooks’ conceptualization of love as a mode of political resistance, this article explores how prisoners’ radio employs love to combat injustice.
Benson, Eleanor R.
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Encarceramento em massa como política social nos Estados Unidos e Brasil
Altre Modernità, 2019 Both the United States and Brazil have undergone major changes in social policies. The replacement of the welfare state by a police state today, in practice, demonstrates the excessive criminalization of marginality that generates punitive restraint that
Renata Danin
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Can a Good Person Be a Good Prosecutor? [PDF]
, 2018 Most people who become prosecutors are honest and ethical public servants who take that job for varied reasons including protecting the community, assisting victims of crime, gaining trial experience, or enhancing future employment prospects and long ...
Yaroshefsky, Ellen
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Solitary confinement and the U.S. prison boom [PDF]
, 2019 Solitary confinement is a harsh form custody involving isolation from the general prison population and highly restricted access to visitation and programs.
Sakoda, Ryan T., Simes, Jessica T.
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An intersectional approach to understanding the challenges facing incarcerated women
Boletim IBCCRIM, 2019 This essay examines the intersection of mass incarceration, disability, and gender, highlighting that women—especially women with disabilities—are the fastest-growing incarcerated population in the U.S.
Jamelia N. Morgan
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Documenting State Violence: (Symbolic) Annihilation & Archives of Survival
KULA, 2018 This essay explores symbolic annihilation in the context of state violence, including policing, incarceration, and the death penalty in the US. Using auto-ethnography to reflect on the work of the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) and other community ...
Gabriel Daniel Solis
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