News & Commentary about Mass Incarceration

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Feb 25, 2013

Sequestration Puts Spotlight on America’s Dangerously Overcrowded Federal Prisons

Feb 22, 2013

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights (02/22/2013)

Feb 21, 2013

Sponsoring a Florida College Football Team Can’t Whitewash a Private Prison Company’s Atrocious Record

Feb 15, 2013

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights (02/15/2013)

Feb 14, 2013

Three Questions Senator Durbin and the DOJ Need to Ask about Federal Solitary

Feb 8, 2013

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights (02/08/2013)

Feb 8, 2013

Private Prison Company Celebrates Black History Month -- Wait, What?!

Feb 7, 2013

Worried About Police Accountability in New York City? There's an App for That

Feb 4, 2013

Shhhh – What The FBI Doesn’t Want You to Know About its Racial Profiling Program

Feb 4, 2013

States Should Run Screaming From the CCA to Avoid Dangerous and Disgusting Prisons