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February 01, 2021

5 HOT BOOK: The Life of Mike Nichols, Race and Mass Incarceration, and More

February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOK: The Life of Mike Nichols, Race and Mass Incarceration, and More

And Uncovering the Secret History of Four Doomed Ancient Cities

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February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Mike Nichols, Mass Incarceration, Radcliffe Bunting Institute
July 20, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: What Can We Do About Overincarceration?, a Great American Conman, and More

July 20, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: What Can We Do About Overincarceration?, a Great American Conman, and More

And Director Oliver Stone Looks Back on a Wild Career

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July 20, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Mass Incarceration, Con Men, Oliver Stone
May 09, 2019

ESSAY: How Do We Solve the Mass Incarceration Crisis? Emily Bazelon Has an Answer

May 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: How Do We Solve the Mass Incarceration Crisis? Emily Bazelon Has an Answer

A New Book Says the Key is to Rethink How Prosecutors Do Their Jobs

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May 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Mass Incarceration, Criminal Justice
November 09, 2017

Q&A: Lauren-Brooke Eisen Talks Private Prisons, Mass Incarceration, and X-Box's

November 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Lauren-Brooke Eisen Talks Private Prisons, Mass Incarceration, and X-Box's

And an Ex-Inmate's Lament that "Private Companies are Now Making Money off of Our Incarceration”

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November 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Private Prisons, Mass Incarceration, Prisons
May 11, 2016

REVIEW: Was 1960's Liberalism the Cause of Today's Overincarceration Crisis?

May 11, 2016/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Was 1960's Liberalism the Cause of Today's Overincarceration Crisis?

A Harvard historian links our Crowded Prisons to President Johnson's War on Poverty

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May 11, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Prisons, Mass Incarceration, War on Poverty, 1960s
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