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Prison and Prison Reform

May 27, 2014September 4, 2014 Susan Sered

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

You can read more about the problems of bail here. A few days ago I ran into a friend of mine – I’ll call her […]

May 21, 2014August 17, 2014 Susan Sered

Incarceration by Any Other Name: A Return to the Cuckoo’s Nest?

The big news coming out of Los Angeles County – the county with the largest number of incarcerated people in the country – is the approval […]

May 5, 2014August 17, 2014 Susan Sered

Our Prisons are Drugging Women

This piece originally appeared in Salon in August, 2013 A report issued earlier this month by the Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that doctors have […]

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