Life Sentences

Opening remarks from the Conference on Incarceration and the Humanities

Now, you could imagine the horrors of a colonial prison in a black, economically depressed country like 1930s Jamaica, just as you can imagine the nightmare that the sound of wailing men might conjure in the mind of a nine-year old child like my grandfather. Even the most benign administrative ...
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Why Dr. Ben Carson Should Not Be Confirmed as HUD Secretary

An open letter to Senators Michael Crapo and Sherrod Brown

We, the undersigned, strongly oppose the appointment of Dr. Ben Carson as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Apart from his personal views on a variety of political and social issues, we consider Dr. Carson completely unqualified to anticipate or promote appropriate solutions to ...
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