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Are We Approaching the End of Solitary Confinement?
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Oakland held that five inmates currently locked up in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison are permitted to move forward with their class action, Ashker v....
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Caring for the Condemned: Does It Make Sense to Treat the Mental Health of...
The last man executed in California was Clarence Ray Allen in 2006. He was serving a life sentence for burglary and the murder of a woman who’d informed on him. While serving time, Allen arranged for...
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Punished for Being Poor: The Problem With Using Big Data in the Justice System
In Michael Lewis’ Moneyball, a data expert does what baseball scouts cannot: predict the future performance of a player with better accuracy. In addition to relying on the instincts of scouts, the...
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Building Better Prisons: Can an Architect Change the Way People Think About...
The Quakers were among the first Americans to devise the idea of solitary confinement based on the notion that a life of quiet contemplation was the best way to help people improve their moral...
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Can Proposition 47 Solve California’s Problem With Mass Incarceration?
While mass incarceration is a problem everywhere in the United States—America has more inmates per capita than any other country in the world—California has served as a crucible for this issue, the...
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The End to Race-Based Lockdowns in California Prisons
An October article by Pacific Standard books editor Graeme Wood in the Atlantic covered the widely recognized—yet routinely unexamined—topic of California’s prison gangs. In many ways, Wood’s piece...
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Are We Approaching the End of Solitary Confinement?
Pelican Bay State Prison. (Photo: Jelson25/Wikimedia Commons)Earlier this month, a federal judge in Oakland held that five inmates currently locked up in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison are...
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Caring for the Condemned: Does It Make Sense to Treat the Mental Health of...
(Photo: T Woodard/Flickr)The last man executed in California was Clarence Ray Allen in 2006. He was serving a life sentence for burglary and the murder of a woman who’d informed on him. While serving...
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Punished for Being Poor: The Problem With Using Big Data in the Justice System
(Photo: martin/Flickr)In Michael Lewis’Moneyball, a data expert does what baseball scouts cannot: predict the future performance of a player with better accuracy. In addition to relying on the...
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Building Better Prisons: Can an Architect Change the Way People Think About...
Old cell block no longer in use at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. (Photo: Lee Honeycutt/Flickr)The Quakers were among the first Americans to devise the idea of solitary confinement based on the...
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Can Proposition 47 Solve California’s Problem With Mass Incarceration?
Aerial view of Corcoran State Prison, in Corcoran, California. (Photo: Public Domain)While mass incarceration is a problem everywhere in the United States—America has more inmates per capita than any...
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The End to Race-Based Lockdowns in California Prisons
San Quentin State Prison. (Photo: Public Domain)An October article by Pacific Standard books editor Graeme Wood in the Atlantic covered the widely recognized—yet routinely unexamined—topic of...
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The Rise of Prison Nurseries
At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a rather dreary maximum security prison about an hour’s drive north of Manhattan, there is one wing that bursts with color: painted murals on the wall,...
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Can PTSD Be Linked to Violence?
Editor's Note: On Tuesday, after less than three hours of deliberation, a jury rejected his insanity plea and found Eddie Ray Routh guilty, automatically sentencing him to life without parole.A jury in...
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To Have and to Hold: Consent and Intimacy for People With Alzheimer’s
Henry Rayhons. (Photo: Public Domain)On April 22, a jury acquitted Henry Rayhons, a 78-year-old house representative in Iowa, of felony charges that he had sexually assaulted his wife, Donna Rayhons,...
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