prison

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  5/14/2021
  

  I Survived Prison During The AIDS Epidemic. Here’s What It Taught Me About Coronavirus

  by Richard Rivera

  Like the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, imprisoned people at risk of COVID-19 find that suspicion, paranoia and isolation have taken the place of meaningful support. 

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• SOURCE: Jersey Digs
  7/24/2020
  

  Old Jail Could Inspire Youth to Stay Out of Prison — but Only If It Survives

  What better way to enshrine the lessons we’ve learned from decades of mass incarceration than by transforming the remnants of Newark’s first penitentiary into a gathering place — be it a museum or community center — that might bring about the end of a problematic legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  7-2-18
  

  Historians for Prison Abolition

  by Eric Morgenson

  The same companies that house prisoners are also paid by the government to house immigrants, creating a problem that sits at the intersection of race and capitalism.

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  11-3-17
  

  What About the "Lost Children" (and Mothers) of America?

  by Rheann Kelly, Natalie Medley and Christina Kovats

  It’s time for their voices to be heard.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-8-17
  

  America must listen to its prisoners before we make a major mistake

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  We’re in danger of repeating the mistake we made after Attica when we let prison reforms fizzle.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-2-16
  

  Prison History’s Horror and Hope

  by Baz Dreisinger

  From 1949 to 1957, the number of young people under criminal-justice supervision more than doubled.

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• SOURCE: OAH Blog
  6-16-15 (accessed)
  

  Why do we lock up so many people in this country?

  The OAH’s Journal of American History addresses this question in a special June issue.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3-22-15
  

  What happens when inmates write a history of their own prison?

  by Rebecca Onion

  Inmates at America’s oldest women’s prison are writing a history of it—and exploding the myth of its benevolent founders.

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• SOURCE: New Haven Register
  4-8-14
  

  Prison history is central to American history, Yale panel says

  Mass incarceration has become the elephant in the room of modern American history, a panel of historians said Tuesday at Yale University.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-12-13
  

  Prison Memoir of a Black Man in the 1850s

  The manuscript was written by a man named Austin Reed, a prisoner in upstate New York.