Jailhouse Blues
Despite the noblest of intentions, America has become the world’s superpower of incarceration.
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Tag Archives: prison
Council for Unity
Ex-gang member Jason Diadema explains how the Council for Unity helped him to leave his gang.
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The Penalty Worse Than Death
From 1957: “Life sentences exact a toll more terrible than execution, says this veteran prison warden, who urges drastic reform in our concept of punishment.”
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America’s Toughest Prison
From 1957: “It’s not being abused while you’re in here—it’s the things you miss. … You have friends on the outside, somebody you can blow off steam to. In here they take that all away from you.”
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Post Perspective: Prisons
The Post explores what it means to be incarcerated, and whether America’s prison system is doing the criminals, or society, any good.
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Pennsylvania Legislature
In 1822, the Pennsylvania Legislature debated adding treadmills to two new prisons as a tool for labor and discipline.
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