By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief An Introduction to Private Prisons Private prisons have been in America since San Quentin opened in California in 1852. But their numbers swelled in the 1980s with the Reagan Administration’s “War on Drugs.” Critics of the private prison system focus their rebuke of the system on the inhumane way that private […]
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Examining Diseased Roots
By Destiny TorresStaff Reporter It may be surprising to some, but facts are facts: the U.S. has the highest population of prison inmates in the world; 67 percent of them are people of color, which represent only about 37 percent of the American population; and the massive number of incarcerated persons needing to be housed, […]