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Incarceration as political philosophy

Jeffrey Ian Ross (Baltimore): Varieties of Prison Voyeurism: An Analytic/Interpretive Framework. Political scientist Jeff Smith spent a year in prison — here’s what he learned. Alex Lichtenstein on mass incarceration has become the new welfare: America’s criminal-justice system has, in its failures, given way to policy that works against a disproportionate number of African Americans. Prisons in America: Sean Beaudoin and Meg Worden on incarceration as political philosophy. One chart that puts mass incarceration in historical context. So what’s the solution to mass incarceration? Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi Coates debate. Michelle Chen on how prison reform could turn the prison-industrial complex into the treatment-industrial complex. Thom Hartmann on the real reason why the Kochs developed a sudden passion for prison reform (and more and more).