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$100,000 Per Year to Lock up a Cheese Thief? The Perverse Logic of "Three Strikes"

Sasha Abramsky, Comment Is Free. February 25, 2010.

That a man with unpaid-for cheese in his underwear could ever have faced essentially the same sentence as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is an absurdity.

California Court Says Enough is Enough: Our Prison Population is Out of Control

California Court Says Enough is Enough: Our Prison Population is Out of Control

Sasha Abramsky, Comment Is Free. August 8, 2009.

For years, California has prioritized incarceration over all other social investments. Now it's being forced to release 40,000 prisoners in two years.

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