Today is Human Rights Day, which commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We felt moved to turn this year’s focus on prisoner’s …
Read More >by Hadar Aviram, author of Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Seattle. Check back …
Read More >by Hadar Aviram In 2009, for the first time in almost forty years, the total number of inmates in the United states declined—a trend that persists since then. Six states have recently …
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