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Tale of a Walled Town
Ours is a grimy bit of blue; And very small; And sunbeams scarce adventure to O’ertop the wall. A bird that flutters swiftly by; A wind that passes with a sigh; A cloudlet sailing slow and high; And...
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Quiet Time
As the pace of life quickens, the number of applications for ten-day silent meditation retreats has gone through the roof. A story by Greg Emerson Bocquet. No talking. No reading. No writing or...
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The Story All Around Us
Listen to This: Crown Heights Oral History Project is an audio archive that attempts to supplement the official history of this dynamic community in central Brooklyn, bringing together the personal...
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The Invention of Solitary
Situated in the thriving neighborhood of Fairmount in Philadelphia lies a decaying ruin: Eastern State Penitentiary. Back when this iconic prison admitted its first inmate in October of 1829, the...
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Fighting Prisons
Activists and organizations working in and around prisons gathered at the 2nd US Social Forum in Detroit to share knowledge and make connections across what proved to be a diverse and vibrant...
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When Radio Goes Silent
Radio Silence is the latest installation piece by digital media artist Zach Poff, and it was on display at Devotion Gallery in Brooklyn, New York from July 2 to July 11. Sponsored by free103point9, the...
View ArticleMENTAL ILLNESS IS NOT A CRIME IN NYC
Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD) is an activist group in New York City that is working to end the practice of incarcerating people with mental illness. This video...
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CONTROL: The Rise of Extreme Incarceration (trailer)
Control: The Rise of Extreme Incarceration is a feature-length documentary that traces the largest expansion of punitive power in the United States. The movie focuses on three conditions that push our...
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The Women of WORTH
The United States is home to about five percent of the world’s population, but can lay claim to twenty-five percent of the its prisoners. In 2006, more than seven million or one in twenty-one adults in...
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The Carceral Continuum: Interview with Caleb Smith
“The carceral network does not cast the unassimilable into a confused hell; there is no outside. It takes back with one hand what it seems to exclude with the other. It saves everything, including what...
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