Neelum Arya (CYJ): Jailing Juveniles: The Dangers of Incarcerating Youth in Adult Jails in America. Baris Cayli (Oxford): Social Networks of the Italian Mafia: The Strong and Weak Parts. In Sicily, defying the Mafia: Fed up with extortion and violent crime, ordinary citizens are rising up against organized crime (and more). Sentenced to Life: A man grows old in prison and outlives society’s fears. From Jesus Radicals, Jenny Truax on the U.S. system of punishment: An expanding balloon of wealth, racism and greed. New York’s prison turnaround: The population behind bars is falling, even as crime stays low. America's most successful stop snitchin' campaign: The failure to protect whistle-blowing cops is inexcusable. For Theodore Dalrymple, the high imprisonment rate in the United States is a sign of social health, not of social disease (and more). Why don’t conservatives oppose the war on drugs? Barely a teenager and marked for life: Federal law requiring juvenile sex offenders to register as predators for life does more harm than good. Should prisoners have a right to vote? From Reason, why letting ex-cons vote is no crime. Whether your interest in executions (you can’t really sugarcoat that word) is fueled by moral outrage or purely voyeuristic curiosity, the internet offers all sorts of resources, history, and creepy diversions. A review of Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg (and more and more and more). Behind Bars: On Rikers Island, a painter reclaims her work. A review of Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned by Leslie Lytle. Rush to Judgment: An article on the dubious trend of trying kids as adults. Filling up prisons without fighting crime: An interview with Mark Kleiman on America's criminal justice system.
