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Plantations, Prisons and Profits

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

Scandalous, but not entirely surprising. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opinion/blow-plantations-prisons-and-profits.html

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http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/nov/10/werner-herzog-death-row/ Werner Herzog’s latest documentary on death row. I’d love to see this sometime.

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Is it a crime to be poor…?

Posted on August 24, 2009 by

This article points out how many of our municipal governments are turning acts of poverty–panhandling, sleeping under the freeway, looking like you’re on public assistance–into sources of revenue or reasons for incarceration. It seems like a world not much different … Continue reading →

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