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A Colossal Failure: Sundance Award-Winning Film Sheds New Light on Destructive Drug War

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. January 31, 2012.

Amy Goodman interviews the Director of "The House I Live In" to explore the horrific failures of drug war, as well as the argument for a public health approach.

Study Settles It: Shocking Black & Latino Imprisonment Rates the Result of Racist, Punitive Impulse

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 21, 2010.

How racist attitudes barely hide beneath the surface of 'tough on crime' policies.

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison -- a Powerful Memoir by Piper Kerman

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 1, 2010.

Piper Kerman's memoir reveals how prison changed her life, and why warehousing people who commit crimes is such a waste of human potential.

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