By Ankush
The always excellent Jason DeParle has a wide-ranging piece in The New York Review about prisons today. DeParle
writes, among other things, about how imprisonment increases and at the
same time hides inequality, as well as about the astonishing increase
in imprisonment rates in the US (now “five times the historic norm and
seven times higher than most of Western Europe”). He also digs into
the issue of felon disenfranchisement, which has rightly been drawing
an increased amount of attention over the last few years:
