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What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem

What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Bill Keller, once editor of the New York Times, now with the Marshall Project, shows how the US came to imprison so many of its citizens, disproportionately Black and brown, and how such a gross injustice might yet be addressed
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History & Incarceration: 'Disorderly Families: Infamous letters from the Bastille archives' edited by Arlette Farge, Michel Foucault and Nancy Luxon, trans. by Thomas Scott-Railton

History & Incarceration: 'Disorderly Families: Infamous letters from the Bastille archives' edited by Arlette Farge, Michel Foucault and Nancy Luxon, trans. by Thomas Scott-Railton | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Michel Foucault took a break from writing to work on an edition of the intriguing set of letters he had come upon while researching in the Bastille archives
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