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The Invention of Incarceration
Prisons have been controversial since their beginnings in the late 1700s — why do they keep failing to live up to expectations?
by
Ashley Rubin
,
Greg Miller
via
Knowable Magazine
on
March 18, 2022
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Inventing Solitary
In 1790, Philadelphia opened the first American penitentiary, with the nation’s first solitary cells. Black people were disproportionately punished from the start.
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Samantha Melamed
via
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on
June 8, 2022
