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Consequences of California’s Realignment Initiative
Consequences of California’s Realignment Initiative
by Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York, writes that “capitalism never resolves its problems; it simply rearranges them geographically.” The same can be said of California’s almost three-year-old Public Safety Realignment ...
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- Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures, June 15, 2013
- The Color of Corporate Corrections: Overrepresentation of People of Color in the Private Prison Industry, March 15, 2013
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