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Covid-19 has presented a crisis — one that’s especially visible in prisons, jails, and detention centers, where an inability to social distance, daily regimes of brutality, and persistently unsanitary conditions make incarcerated people particularly vulnerable.
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“Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself.” From the book of Hebrews, this reminder to remember has been largely forgotten by Christians — as have those in prison themselves. In fact, far from advocating for those in prison, American Christians have historically been vocal supporters of imprisonment, and even the death penalty
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This week, I attended “Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration: The History of Mass Incarceration and the Future of Prison Abolition,” a conference held at the University of Mississippi. As conference organizer Garrett Felber announced at the start, the conference would be “unapologetically abolitionist.” And unapologetically abolitionist it was.
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My senior thesis, completed in Spring 2019, focused on recent decades of criminal legal reform in New Jersey and their consequences.
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University administrators have an incredibly hard time calling something racist, and Princeton University’s own President Eisgruber is no exception. In fact, as a recent interaction with student activists demonstrates, he’s part of the problem.
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In the flurry of last month’s election results, one result stood out as particularly exciting: Florida voters passed Ballot Initiative 4, reinstating the right to vote for nearly 1.5 million voters and re-enfranchising nearly twenty percent of Florida’s African American population. Just as importantly, Florida’s referendum highlighted that group-based voter disenfranchisement remains a widespread legalized practice, enshrined in law,…
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