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Conservatives Against Incarceration?
Fiscal conservatives were never going to bring down the carceral state. A broader fight against social inequality is needed.
Fiscal conservatives were never going to bring down the carceral state. A broader fight against social inequality is needed.
Progressive narratives about what’s driving mass incarceration don’t quite add up.
Marie Gottschalk is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics.