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Published: 01 January 2012
Prison Creative Arts Project Half-Surrender by Kinnari Sutariya. Acrylic.
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Published: 01 January 2012
Prison Creative Arts Project The sign on the cage in this painting, Deep Sense of Need by incarcerated artist Bryan Picken reads, “For Disposal.” This acrylic painting and the art on pages 33, 35, and 38 all come out of the Michigan-based Prison Creative Arts Project.
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Published: 01 January 2012
Prison Creative Arts Project Perpetuation by Darius White. Prisma Pencil.
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Published: 01 January 2012
Evan Bissell ( theknottedline.us ) The futility of prison: if we want nothing to do with it, we have to find other ways to respond to violent assaults.
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What Can Replace Prison?
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (3): 51–53.
Published: 01 August 2015
...AL HUNTER Given that juvenile prison has ended in New Zealand, how is it that Bernstein doesn’t mention this fact in her book on ending juvenile prison? In Locked Down, Locked Out , Schenwar recounts a Maori (indigenous New Zealander) antiviolence activist’s story that tells how her community...
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Published: 01 November 2014
Olivia Wise ( oliviawisestudio.com ) Every month at the prison, the author writes, Rabbi Richter would lead Shabbat, “lighting the candles, bringing the feelings, sights, and sounds of our heritage into the space that was, for the moment, a sanctuary.” Shabbat in Prison by Olivia Wise.
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Published: 01 November 2014
Creative Commons/Jody Davis “The prison administration wasn’t going to let me sit Shiva in the prescribed manner,” Jacobs writes. “Rabbi Richter was instrumental in my being able to go to my parents’ funeral.”
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Published: 01 January 2012
Prison Creative Arts Project A prisoner paints a guard: Someone Cares , by Paul Bruton. Acrylic.
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Bearing Witness to Prison Brutality
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Tikkun (2005) 20 (2): 50–51.
Published: 01 April 2005
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Published: 01 August 2012
Julia Tabor Levinas, who was eventually held as a prisoner of war by the Nazis, offered a prescient analysis in 1934 of Hitler’s materialist, pseudo-biological ideology. “Hitlerism is more than a contagion or madness,” he wrote, “it is an awakening of elementary feelings.”
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Published: 01 January 2012
Suspension Stories ( suspensionstories.com ) Harsh school discipline drives many students into juvenile and adult prisons. Students illustrated the school-to-prison pipeline at a Representing the Pipeline event in Chicago in July 2010. See suspensionstories.com .
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Published: 01 April 2013
Bruce Jackson ( brucejackson.us ) U.S. crime rates fall below the international average, yet the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Inmates stand in a Texas prison in this photograph from Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons by Bruce Jackson
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in Our Psychological Crisis: Making Sense of the American Psychological Association’s Collusion with Torture
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Published: 01 January 2016
Flickr/Medill DC Activists protest the enhanced interrogation and indefinite detention of Guantanamo prisoners in front of the White House.
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Published: 01 August 2014
ACLU of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) A student speaks out against the school-to-prison pipeline during an education rally at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles.
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Published: 01 January 2012
Evan Bissell ( theknottedline.us ) The number of people incarcerated, on parole, and on probation in the United States roughly equals the populations of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston combined. And then there’s that extralegal prison at Guantánamo.
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Published: 01 January 2012
Laura Bowman Salzsieder Members of a Victim Offender Education Group graduating class of 2010 in San Quentin prison pose with facilitators Rochelle Edwards (at front), Jaimee Karroll (at back), and Jack Dison (far left).
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Published: 01 August 2014
Sarah Rhee ( sarah-ji.com ) As neoliberalism has taken hold, our society has become increasingly structured around the state-sanctioned violence of mass incarceration. Here, a demonstrator in Chicago protests youth incarceration and the high rates of sexual violence against youth in prison.
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Mark Lewis Taylor on Bringing Change Amid Mass Incarceration
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Tikkun (2009) 24 (1): 82–83.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... prisons. I found them,
usually in comments about assisting prisoners re-entering society and altering sentencing and drug laws.
Such comments were lodged under “Civil Rights” and “Crime and Law Enforcement.”
D It is time for national leaders...
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The Scourge of Solitary Confinement
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Tikkun (2018) 33 (1-2): 71–72.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P. Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 Bob Jagendorf T he imprisonment binge of recent decades has resulted in over two million people currently in jails and prisons, nearly fifty percent of whom are African American. In the same decades that the prison...
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Poetry in the Age of Mass Incarceration
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (1): 55–57.
Published: 01 January 2012
... depicting the absurdities and glimmers of hope of “a man handcuffed to life in prison.” Betts is now free from those handcuffs, and so we will have to wait for his next book to learn where poetry leads him. In the meantime, we can celebrate his first book of poems as evidence of how, under the right...
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