jail
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On preventing future crime.
Mass incarceration hurts all of us, even if we don’t know anyone locked away. It may have cost my mother-in-law her life.
A Visit from an Outsider, C. J. Chivers, Cathy O’Neil, jail, James Trent, Jason Chambers, judicial discretion, Leviathan, Lori Milks, mass incarceration, Michael Mueller-Smith, New Yorker, prison, prosecutorial discretion, PTSD, randomized study, recidivism, rehabilitation, Sam Siatta, Selma, sentencing reform, state violence, The Fighter, Thomas Hobbes, Weapons of Math Destruction
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On writing poetry in English.
Throughout the month of November, in “celebration” of betrayals both past and present (Thanksgiving, land grants, sovereignty, smallpox, Christianity, Standing Rock), my co-teacher and I brought poetry by contemporary Native American writers into the jail. One week, my co-teacher (JM) began class with an impromptu riff about the fact that, although English-speaking people had betrayed…
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On wasted ingenuity.
Everyone strives, but we force some to waste their efforts reinventing the wheel – or the water heater, or the piano, or…
Albany, Attica, automation, Blood in the Water, capitalism, childhood trauma, criminal justice, Deirdre N McCloskey, Demetrius Cunningham, economics, Growth Not Forced Equality Saves the Poor, Heather Anne Thompson, imprisonment, injustice, jail, Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano, Lori Milks, New Yorker, one sheet per day, poverty, prison, prison writing, punishment, punitive justice
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On pain.
Habitual drug use ruins lives. But the War on Drugs ends them.
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On throwing sand.
Even when we can’t change the world, we control how we perceive it. Which gives us the strength to press for change.
Frank Brown Cloud 