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Healthcare, Justice/Jails

The War on Drugs – our longest war – and Portugal

February 14, 2024 Read the keystone essay – Justice, Police, & Prison System X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image FootnotesComprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/the-war-on-drugs-as-structural-racism/ accessed 2.14.2024https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/drug-use-by-country accessed 2.14.2024https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html accessed 2.14.2024
Capitalism, Justice/Jails, Politics, Videos-Movies-Podcasts

Neoliberalism in action: The Scheme 26: The Myth of the Unelected Bureaucrat – Senator Whitehouse video

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Justice/Jails

Parole and probation increase the burdens of our mass prison system

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Briefly Noted, Justice/Jails

More on our status as Number One in Incarceration – Jon Stewart

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Justice/Jails

Justice in America – the big fraud

February 24, 2023 Read the keystone essay – Justice, Police, & Prison System X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnoteshttps://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/criminaljustice/plea-bargain-tf-report.pdfhttps://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2022-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2021-dealing-with-unexpected-expenses.htm https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_aid_indigent_defendants/ls-sclaid-nm-moss-adams-exec-summ.pdf https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_aid_indigent_defendants/ls_sclaid_louisiana_project_report.pdf
Justice/Jails, Racism/White Supremacy

The State of Mass Incarceration – 2022

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Justice/Jails, Video Posts

Video Post – The American Justice System – the delusion and the realities

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Briefly Noted, Economy, Education, Inequality, Justice/Jails, Racism/White Supremacy, Videos-Movies-Podcasts

“How Structural Racism Works” – Tricia Rose and Samuel Rosen – recently noted

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Books, Economy, Education, Family, Healthcare, Inequality, Justice/Jails, Politics

Tightrope – Americans reaching for hope by Kristof and WuDunn – book review

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Justice/Jails

The Other Side of Our Judicial System – Civil Law

January 28, 2020 Read the keystone essay – Justice, Police, & Prison System X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnoteshttps://www.nlc.org/article/2021/10/26/using-right-to-counsel-as-an-eviction-diversion-strategy/https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2020/05/how-debt-collectors-are-transforming-the-business-of-state-courts
Justice/Jails, Videos-Movies-Podcasts

Recently Noted – more John Oliver on American justice – or not

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Evicted – the book and the exhibition

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Justice/Jails

Recently Noted – more unequal justice – lots of it….

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Briefly Noted, Inequality, Justice/Jails

Recently Noted – John Thompson and Justice – Prosecution With No Recourse

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Recently Noted – Serial the Podcast – More Evidence of the Delusion of Justice –

November 4, 2018 Read the keystone essay – Justice, Police, & Prison System X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image FootnotesWhy Innocent People Plead Guilty" by Jed Rakoff in New York Review of Books 11/20/2014 accessed 6/24/2017
Briefly Noted, Justice/Jails, Other

Recently Noted – Hudson NY and Its SWAT Team

September 1, 2018 Read the keystone essay – Justice, Police, & Prison System X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnotes https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/08/militarization-of-local-police-isnt-making-anyone-safer/568900/ accessed 09012018http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/08/14/1805161115.full.pdf accessed 09012018
Justice/Jails, Politics

Gun Regulation, the 2nd Amendment, and Scalia’s Majority Opinion

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Justice/Jails, Racism/White Supremacy

Mass Incarceration – The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander

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Healthcare, Justice/Jails, Racism/White Supremacy

Opioids and White Privilege – Lock’em Up vs. Treatment

December 12, 2017 Read the keystone essay – Justice, Police, & Prison System X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnoteshttp://www.unionleader.com/Opioid-user-numbers-in-NH-are-staggering
Briefly Noted, Justice/Jails

Recently Noted – women in prison in the US – more on mass incarceration

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Justice/Jails

The US Wins Again – Incarceration in Global Context

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Justice/Jails

The Rule of Law, Justice, American Delusions

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Justice/Jails, Politics

America’s Longest War and Attorney General Sessions

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Justice/Jails, Politics

Justice in America – Not

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Justice/Jails, Politics

The War on Drugs Is a Failure – The Gregory Brothers’ video

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Justice/Jails, Politics

Our Longest War – The War on Drugs – more data on its futility

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Justice/Jails

America’s Longest War – a socio-political-military disaster – indicted by Global Commission on Drug Policy

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