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Marie Gottschalk

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The Making of the Deportation Machine

The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

by Marie Gottschalk via Boston Review on February 10, 2026

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Was 1960's Liberalism the Cause of Today's Overincarceration Crisis?

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?

by Lauren-Brooke Eisen via The National Book Review on June 4, 2016

Clara Newton at her home outside Baltimore, holding a picture of her son Odell, who has been in prison for 41 years for a crime he committed when he was 16. State officials have recommended Odell for release three times since 1992, but he has not been freed. August 4, 2015.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on September 15, 2015

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