“The inmates have privacy, and the facilities are beautiful. It was mind-shifting.”
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Mass incarceration is synonymous with criminal justice in the United States. We are the world’s top jailer, have among the longest sentences, and tolerate shocking racial disparities in imprisonment rates.
Baz Dreisinger is an unusual combination of English professor, journalist and documentary producer whose travels to nine countries to meet with their prisoners led to “Incarceration Nations.” This journey into what she calls “global hellholes” sets an earnest American on a quest for insight into American criminal punishment, via structured encounters with foreign prisoners in situ. Each country is paired with a reflection on a single strategy, from punishment to its alternatives: South Africa’s is truth and reconciliation; Brazil’s is solitary confinement; Uganda’s and Jamaica’s are arts education. read the whole MAGILLA here
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
How does your state’s use of the prison compare to the nations of the world?
Incarceration Nation: The war on drugs has succeeded only in putting millions of Americans in jail
Behind the curtains the ACHSA board is hard at work determining the focus for the 2016 conference, lining up speakers and vendors.
Democracy, Shared Prosperity,and the Common Good
These graphics depict the possible paths of people charged with different offenses, revealing the various privatized services provided by the corrections industry. Go see these great graphics, that tell the bigger story
