April 25, 2016 Toronto Star – Canadian Press Hundreds march in Halifax after series of violent deaths Several hundred people who included both the chief of police and the mayor of Halifax have given community action and solidarity a new meaning: … [Read more...]
Cost benefit analysis…
April 22, 2016 by
April 22, 2016 N.Y. Times – Jason Furman and Douglas Holyz-Eakin Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay The authors do a cost benefit analysis of the “staggering” growth in the nation’s prison population. The article examines both the notion of mass … [Read more...]
Waiting…
August 15, 2015 by
Aug. 15, 2015 (Ed note: We have eleven weeks of political announcements and attention seeking stunts for proposed new policies, all meant to shout down the other. Few of these announcements will ever reach to the authentically human impact of … [Read more...]