Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform
…er-maintained. Rehabilitation and substance-abuse programs are chronically underfunded. Debt imprisonment no longer exists, but the burden still falls disproportionately on the marginalized: discriminatory policies throughout the justice system mean that black people and Hispanics are incarcerated at six times and twice the rates of whites, respectively, according to the Economist. Despite two centuries of activism, our correctional institutions a…
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