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Opinion: Late morning links: America’s prisoners go on strike

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The Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna, Del. (Suchat Pederson/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP)
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Radley Balko
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Radley Balko
Opinion columnist focusing on civil liberties, the drug war and the criminal justice system
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August 23, 2018 at 3:08 p.m. UTC
  • The case against the felony murder rule.
  • America’s prisoners are in the midst of a nationwide strike. Here’s why.
  • Meanwhile, in Mississippi, 10 prison inmates have died in the past three weeks.
  • New York’s governor signs bill to create a board that will oversee the state’s prosecutors.
  • Video shows Alameda County, Calif., sheriff’s office illegally recorded conversation between juvenile suspect, attorney.
  • Reason interviews the founders of Backpage.com, who discuss the trafficking accusations against them.
  • Mexico just set an all-time record for homicides in a single month. Thank the drug war.
  • A single South Carolina jury issued more than 900 indictments in a single day.
  • Mollie Tibbetts’s family has asked that her death not be politicized. Anti-immigration politicians and pundits will do it anyway.
  • Republicans plan to shelve a prison reform bill.
  • President Trump wants to make snitch testimony illegal. Let’s do it!
  • RIP, Dan Bigg, a pioneer in the harm-reduction approach to treating drug addiction. He undoubtedly saved countless lives.

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