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Of rough justice

Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick): Social Deprivation and Criminal Justice. Michael Rich (Elon): Should We Make Crime Impossible? Jonathan Rapping (John Marshall): Who's Guarding the Henhouse? How the American Prosecutor Came to Devour Those He is Sworn to Protect. Samuel R. Gross and Michael Shaffer (Michigna): Exonerations in the United States, 1989–2012. How many innocent people have we sent to prison? Yes, America, we have executed an innocent man: Carlos DeLuna was put to death in December 1989 for a murder in Corpus Christi, but he didn't commit the crime. From the American Civil Liberties Union, a special report: At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly. To see how mass incarceration has reworked our expectations about governance, we need to understand the relationship of policing to the two major political ideologies of the past thirty years and the governance project that came out of them. A review of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching by Michael J. Pfeifer. Susan Greene on how eighty thousand Americans, including the non-violent, are in solitary.