Thursday, May 29, 2008

California Prisons Prepare to Desegregate

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Tanya Schevitz reports in the SF Chronicle on California prisons gearing up to comply with a consent decree to desegregate housing for ente...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Compromise Justice: Americans are unique in electing judges, but we are also unique in obsessing about crime

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In Sunday's edition of the NYTimes, law correspondent Adam Liptak examines the uniquely American practice of popularly electing judges, ...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Is the Era of Mass Incarceration Over in California?

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Early news reports (see Mark Rothfield's May 20th reporting in the LATimes) of a proposed settlement to the epic overcrowding case that...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Pentagon Plans Massive Prison in Afghanistan

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In one more sign that the war on terror is replicating the war on crime, the Pentagon announced plans last week to build a massive new priso...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Il Governo della Paura

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Yes the rumors are true, Governing through Crime, will shortly be out in an Italian edition, translated by the brilliant Alessandro di Giorg...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

City of Walls

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Michael Gordon's vivid reporting from Baghdad, in this mornings NYTimes raised again for me the question of how our security strategies...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Meager results for gun sensors

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The desperation of governing through crime thinking comes through loud and clear in Wyatt Buchanan's story in today's SF Chron, on ...