pickThis extremely readable book explores how the policies put in place in the 1970s and 80s that led to mass incarceration were largely supported by the black community, including voters, politicians, and members of the justice system. He focuses in on majority black DC and gives a little hint on efforts made more recently to turn things around. Really interesting read.
pickBoth comprehensive in approach and concise in conveying a message, I found this a highly useful resource with one notable exception.
The author presents issues with sentencing, a brief history of problems within Canada's prison system, the issues that are still prevalent at the time of publication, and then tackled the obvious question: 1/? [Buckle up, it's gonna be a long one.]
Books help! I'm gonna cry. 🥹
Not to pull focus from the important facts being relayed, but boy, oh, boy do I want to read this woman's memoir!
If you're going to act like heartless bastards, Mallea's gonna call you out in it. 👏🏻
Thankfully there remains a glimmer of hope that imprisoning refugees in Canada may become a thing of the past: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/03/21/canada-all-10-provinces-end-immigration-dete...
1) Completely agree with sharply satirical observation, if judges can't exercise discretion in sentencing, what are they doing there?
2) The idea of computers handling sentencing opens up a whole new world of AI dystopia. 🫣
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Wow. The only thing more dispiriting than reading about the recent conditions in Canadian prisons is finding out they used to be better and then got worse again. 🙄🤦🏼♂️
It. 👏🏻 Makes. 👏🏻 No. 👏🏻 Sense! 👏🏻
