From the latest issue of State of Nature, a special section on crime and punishment. Anthony J. Nocella (Hamline): An Overview of the History and Theory of Transformative Justice. Michael S. Pardo (Alabama) and Dennis Patterson (EUI): Neuroscience, Normativity, and Retributivism. Michael M. O'Hear (Marquette): Solving the Good Time Puzzle: Why Following the Rules Should Get You Out of Prison Early. How many innocent people are in prison? The exact number is unknown — but may be 20,000 or more. Free Willy: Should prison inmates have the right to masturbate? A statistics professor says he can predict crime before it occurs. Dangerous Jails: Do deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department have a free pass to rampage? Across the world, crime is down and in a big way — are violent movies to thank for less real blood and gore? A review of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. The Exile Nation Project is a documentary archive of interviews and testimonies from criminal offenders, family members, and experts revealing the far-ranging consequences of the War on Drugs to the American criminal justice system.
