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Always need to remember: the Portuguese law everyone praises is EXACTLY the law from 1920s Prohibition the same ppl decry.Sale, manuf, and transport still illegal. Just possession oaky.That’s the Volstead
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At least three important points to pull from this NYT piece on the private prison EO: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/business/biden-private-prisons-justice-department.html1. The union representing public-sector Fed prison staff is happy
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Sigh.Now, TBF, the Feds rely on privates a lot more than the publics do--at nearly twice the rate (even though 76% of ppl in privates are held by the states).
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1. Bc I have to accept that the 1994 Crime Bill is now a permanent fixture of the 2020 campaign, here’s a thread that pulls together the numbers that we
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1. Thinking today abt what a Fed Second Step Act should be, think it should def include this:Billions in aid, earmarked solely for pub health/housing (mental health, drugs, family counseling,
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This is a distressing example of how hard it is to stop disinformation on here.Start w this Beschloss tweet that got retweeted a lot into my TL. The quote is
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I still find myself amazed that decades of cost-benefit analyses of crim justice policy in econ, criminology and other fields never seriously wrestled w opportunity cost.If $1 spent on, say,
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Good God this piece is infuriating, about the Salt Lake City DA using gang enhancements to threaten ppl who protested his office with potentially life in prison. At least two
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