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:
