#massincarceration — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #massincarceration, aggregated by home.social.
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Guests Ross Thomas and Leslie Nuss call out the endless tough on crime cycle - a system that feeds private prisons and punishes poverty instead of fixing it.
Full episode at hoosleft.us
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Within some #FairfieldCounty #Connecticut neighborhoods, more than 2 out of every 100 residents (2%) are currently incarcerated — more than 30X the rate in other neighborhoods in the area. These neighborhood-level rates are averages: Among some groups such as men, young adults, and persons who identify as Black, these percentages are considerably higher. Some of the data used here comes from Prison Policy Initiative. Learn more in the next edition of our #CommunityIndex. #massincarceration #nnip