prisons
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A Library for Prisoners
Parsons School of Design students collaborated with the New York Public library to design better book carts to serve incarcerated readers. The carts are intended to facilitate easy browsing. The partnership has produced four carts that will be used at…
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Putting Literature in Prisons
Seattle-based program Books to Prison helps to give literature to Seattle’s inmates, and it is changing lives. Encountering different narratives through books can have a lasting effect. For prisoners, books are more than entertainment; books provide the tools to help…
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Sunday at the Angola Prison Rodeo
Driving onto Angola’s grounds in early October, hay bales dot flat green fields and quaint white barns rise in their midst. Fountains spew from the placid rectangles of designer catfish ponds. If we didn’t know we were entering a state…
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Slow-Motion Sins
At The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik follows up on his recent piece about America’s prisons, delving deeper into the moral issues surrounding mass incarceration. “The moral failings of advanced liberal societies, not least this one, tend to be slow-motion sins.…
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Women’s Prisons
The authors of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives From Women’s Prisons compare stories gathered for the book with last month’s report by Rashida Manjoo, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. The bottom line: women in…