Barbarism is not a matter of methods but of aims. We say that these veneered vandals have the perfectly serious aim of destroying certain ideas which, as they think, the world has outgrown; without which, as we think, the world will die.
-G K Chesterton (1915) "The Appetite of Tyranny"
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“The Lesson Here Is That the System Is Cruel”: Keri Blakinger on #Prison Journalism
The formerly incarcerated reporter speaks out on the challenges of prison reporting and her new memoir, Corrections in Ink.
Path cleared for Georgia to launch work requirements for Medicaid
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Alabama's Prisons are Killing People w/ Eddie Burkhalter
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How private prisons backdoor big donations to Ron DeSantis
The GEO Group, which just won a lucrative contract extension from Florida, is one of the biggest donors to an organization pumping millions into the Ron DeSantis re-election campaign.
https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/how-private-prisons-backdoor-big
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Overcrowding, violence and abuse proliferate at jails across the country, as staffing problems make long-simmering problems worse.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/11/04/why-so-many-jails-are-in-a-state-of-complete-meltdown
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