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Prisons are Still Making COVID-19 Era Mistakes

Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.
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Q&A with Benjamin Snyder, author of "Spy Plane"

In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this controversial policing experiment.
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System-affected academics are building a movement — and transforming the academy

In October of 2002, I was sitting in the commons area of a cellblock in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, waiting my turn to catch a prison plane to my assigned penitentiary. I was both stressed out and exhausted, wired with anxiety.
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