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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 12–13.
Published: 01 March 2016
... In countries around the world, minorities are disproportionately represented in incarcerated populations. World Policy Journal charts the demographics of the general population against the imprisoned population in the U.S., South Africa, England and Wales, Canada, Brazil, and Australia and reveals...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of four large urban labor markets, 40 percent admitted they wouldn’t hire someone with a criminal record. If you do have a job, you earn about 40 percent less, annually, than your non-formerly incarcerated peers, and if you live in all but four states, you have no say about this reality, or any other...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., she summoned then-Mayor Duterte to speak about the spate of murders and, in her words, “berated him.” Following Matobato’s testimony, Lima was accused of drug trafficking and ousted from the Senate investigation. She was soon arrested and has been incarcerated since February. She denies all...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Vidhi Doshi Right now India’s jails hold more people waiting for their cases to be heard than individuals who have actually been convicted of a crime. These incarcerated individuals who have yet to see a judge are so common that they’re known as “undertrials” in India. Journalist Vidhi Doshi...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 15–22.
Published: 01 September 2004
... on fundamentalists incarcerated in major West
their expertise in weapons and tactics to ern prison systems. Al-Qaeda and its net
their less experienced brethren. This advan work of associated organizations has taken
tage was given a further huge boost by the full advantage of the relatively lax practices...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 108–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... to an Egyptian living with HIV, carrying the medicine should not justify an arrest. An HIV-positive test result should not be evidence of stigmatized and criminalized behavior. Using an HIV-positive status to justify incarcerating someone disincentives getting tested and receiving proper care. Governments...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 91–101.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the Canadian Population but more than 23 percent of the prison population. In the United States, the Native Americans incarceration rates are 38 percent higher than the national rate. In New Zealand, the figures are even more striking—Maori making up to 15 percent of the total population, but one inmate out...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 47–56.
Published: 01 March 2016
... now for black people? What are the key points in Afro-Brazilian movements right now? Is it police brutality? Is it mass incarceration? DG: Brazil is a huge country, so we don’t have a single subject that is the focus for everyone. We are operating on different fronts: We are in the police...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 11–14.
Published: 01 December 2017
... legislation will affect existing Treaty of Waitangi settlements. Today, Māori make up roughly 15 percent of New Zealand’s population, yet they retain less than 5 percent of its land. Thanks to discriminatory policies and the legacy of colonialism, they are on average the poorest, most incarcerated...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 42–56.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., Kashmir has been
reduced to a land of pain and misery. Since the armed
insurgency broke out against Indian rule in 1989, more
than 90,000 people have died. There are thousands of or-
phans and widows. Incarceration, rape, and torture have
become routine.
Teenagers hang out in one of Ciutat...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 15–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... This is true for most areas of social life, but it’s most obvious in the area of criminal justice. In England and Wales, there are far fewer people incarcerated than in the U.S., but Black people are even more overrepresented in the prison population. In 2013–14, Black individuals made up 12.6 percent...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2016
... skinned as I am, is full of challenges. Of all ethnic groups in New Zealand, Māori statistically suffer from the lowest life expectancy, highest incarceration rates, and highest instances of poverty. New Zealand has been active in promoting affirmative action to address the institutional racism...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2017
... criminal justice system, colonial property rights regimes, and the customary practices of pastoralist communities. Over the last few months, hundreds of indigenous pastoralists have been incarcerated for entering white-owned ranches in Laikipia, Kenya. While the law considers their actions an “invasion...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 71–80.
Published: 01 March 2002
...
weaken or insult the judiciary.”10 Loqman- mostly to bazaar traders and religiously in
ian’s incarceration caused an uproar in Par clined members of the middle class, aca
liament. One MP labeled it “a mini-coup,” demics, and students. Taleqani was the left
and some called for a national...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 111–114.
Published: 01 March 2002
... for their incarceration
has been made by Yale’s Ruth Wedgwood, a member of this journal’s advisory board— that
unlawful combatants are not the same as prisoners of war. Yet initially, the White House
barely troubled to defend mass detentions, and only did so after an outcry in Europe over
prisoners held...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of this was done with a warrant, and Ortega remains in jail to this day. Ortega is just one of 86 political prisoners currently incarcerated by the Venezuelan government. Since 2014, the state has held close to 6,000 political detainees. However, the thin veneer of a legal system built by the Venezuelan regime...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 5–11.
Published: 01 March 2016
... that the [Charlie Hebdo] killers belong to our social group and that they are the products of France; and that they are, above all, the creation of imperial violence. We know they are the product of racism, Islamophobia, and Negrophobia. They are the product of the social ghetto in which they are incarcerated...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 56–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
... any other artist working today. In 2009, his incarceration while shooting a film about Iran’s street protests provoked an international uproar, forcing the government to release him after three months. Although an Islamic court subsequently sought to punish him with a six-year jail sentence and a 20...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 112–117.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... While incarcerated in the U.S. before being deported, he had learned the basics of being a barber and felt he had a knack for it. He found a spot in his neighborhood in Choloma and set up a small barbershop. His dad, who had worked in construction, helped him build the structure. Franklin’s prices were...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 91–98.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... Zheleznov’s past shines a light on the ultranationalists’ murky dealings with the Russian authorities and their links to Ukraine. His contact list is a who’s who of the far right in Russia, including many individuals who are currently incarcerated. Verkhovsky, the expert on extremism, says Putin...
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