logicmag.io > Sarah T. Hamid
Community Defense: Sarah T. Hamid on Abolishing Carceral Technologies
31 aug. 2020 - A conversation about how to break cages.
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www.theatlantic.com > Ed Yong
How the Pandemic Defeated America
3 aug. 2020 - A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
 · academia · architecture · black-struggle · china · conspiracy-thinking · covid-19 · culture · healthcare · individualism · inequality · misinformation · pandemics · police-violence · prisons · sick-buildings · technology · trust · united-states

www.nybooks.com > Michelle Kuo
What Replaces Prisons?
20 aug. 2020 - Sociologists tend to agree that the threat of harsh prison conditions or lengthy sentences doesn’t act as a deterrent to crime. Studies are particularly decisive on the issue of juvenile crime, showing that prisons effectively serve as “schools” in which young people become criminals. In many states, up to 80 percent will be rearrested within three years of getting out of jail. What would a world with a vastly reduced reliance on prisons and police look like?
 · australia · black-struggle · justice · new-zealand · prison-reform · prisons · restorative-justice · south-africa · united-states