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Plantations, Prisons and Profits
Scandalous, but not entirely surprising. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opinion/blow-plantations-prisons-and-profits.html
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.
Is it a crime to be poor…?
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