Joan Petersilia (Stanford) and Francis Cullen (Cincinnati): Liberal but Not Stupid: Meeting the Promise of Downsizing Prisons. Patrice A. Fulcher (Atlanta’s John Marshall): The Double Edged Sword of Prison Video Visitation: Claiming to Keep Families Together While Furthering the Aims of the Prison Industrial Complex. Elizabeth Bennion (BYU): Banning the Bing: Why Extreme Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and Far Too Usual Punishment. We know solitary confinement annihilates the minds of its victims, but what does it do to the rest of us? Lisa Guenther wonders. What happens to life sentences if our lifespan is radically extended? Rebecca Roache on future punishment. Jessica Pishko reviews Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison by Nell Bernstein. Nicole Flatow on how private companies are profiting from threats to jail the poor. Hamilton Nolan on how private prisons are getting rich by abusing illegal immigrants. Annie-Rose Strasser on the companies that just promised to pull 60 million dollars from private prisons. John Pfaff on why the conventional wisdom on prison growth is wrong, and where we can go from here. Keith Humphreys on the five myths of American incarceration. Emily Badger on how there’s little evidence that fewer prisoners means more crime; and on the meteoric, costly and unprecedented rise of incarceration in America. Brennan Hughes on cultural anthropology's insights into mass incarceration and victimless crime. Paul Romer on the great crime wave and the tragedy of mass incarceration. Incarceration Nation: America’s love affair with mass incarceration is a well-documented phenomenon. Robert Evans and Cedric Coleman on horrifying things you didn't (want to) know about prison. Prisons are terrible, and there’s finally a way to get rid of them. Salomon Orellana on how a third party could reduce incarceration in the US.
