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Crime and Justice

Could Day Fines Improve the U.S. Justice System?

Are day fines a possible solution for the U.S. criminal justice system?

Female prisoners at Parchman sewing, c. 1930  By Mississippi Department of Archives and History [see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons

A History of Women’s Prisons

While women's prisons historically emphasized the virtues of traditional femininity, the conditions of these prisons were abominable.

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Tyler S. Sprague on the Intersection of Structure and Design

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12 Poems by Frank O’Hara

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How to be a Modern Autocrat

In the twenty-first century, dictators are less likely than their predecessors to use violence to suppress dissent, cultivating instead “informational autocracies.”

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A History of Women’s Prisons

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