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Aug 22, 2022Liked by John Hawthorne

I'm a huge fan of restitution, but now I want to grow more familiar with the larger package of restoration that you write about here. This, in my view, is the opposite of what we have--an obsession with incapacitation.

The Atlanta Penitentiary situation, I think, has another layer. Stories that focus on federal ineptitude--maybe especially when they are well-founded--enable the privatized prison system, which is run according to the reprehensible ethical structures of corporate profit. I just wanted to add that layer of context.

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