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MassIncarceration 7 - 28 Feb 2012 - Main.ShakedSivan
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 I thought it would be useful to consolidate a conversation that's going on in the class facebook group. The material is interesting, important, and relates to our discussions in this class (most obviously regarding Robinson and his work). Hopefully it will also allow us to procrastinate from finishing torts or con law reading. I apologize for the scattershot nature of this post. I may go back and do more editing / summarizing of the links below if there's any interest or this sparks a discussion. Of course I welcome any interested person to do likewise, or just jump off from one of the articles or points and run with it.

A New Yorker article on mass incarceration that provides something of a historical overview. "The Caging of America" by Adam Glopnik, 1/30/2012.

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 When I heard this justification I was initially flattered and started patting myself on the back re: the future policies I was going to enact/people I was going to lead. Then I realized I am not future policy-maker or leader. It’s not something I ever considered myself or ever wanted – and it’s not something I want now. I literally want to know how to work the law well – like Robinson. The articles you posted did make me empathize with the prisoners’ plight, but the idea of leading the movement on wide-scale prisoner reform seems daunting and political and like nothing I want to be involved in. I’d rather help people on an individual basis. This is definitely more of a personal tangent but after reading articles like the ones you posted I am often left with less of a desire to reform our whole system, and more of a desire to help the few individuals whose personal stories were told.

-- SkylarPolansky - 23 Feb 2012

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>		Skylar, the strawman goes like this. Someone sets up two strawman positions as reflective of what the left think and what the right think. This reasonable person, of course, believes in neither of those positions, and is all the more reasonable for not thinking like those ideologues. I think Glopnik's using strawmen in this case because I don't see why most of his moderate, incremental proposals would be opposed by the left or right, with a couple of notable exceptions (such as profiling). I will say his idea of no jailtime for almost any nonviolent offenders would indeed get very little support.

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