The scale and brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.As astute and succinct a summary of mass incarceration as fourteen words can be.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Great Piece on Mass Incarceration from The New Yorker
This essay from the New Yorker on mass incarceration is a must-read. Choice quote:
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This is actually, to my surprise, an interesting article that is not the same vanilla stuff. It really stears away from the brutality argument - prisons are immoral because they are brutal. That natural extension of that argument is build and manage prisons that are less brutal. He takes on a more fundamental premise...that the very concept of prison is immoral.
I appreciate but disagree profoundly with the premise of this. That said, very thought provoking.
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