There are some films (and filmmakers, for that matter) that wear their influences on their sleeves, unabashedly declaring to which cinematic predecessors its creators are most indebted. There’s nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but the catch is that the director should bring enough of his or her original voice to the material […]
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NYCLU calls on state officials to reform solitary confinement practices
A new report from the New York Civil Liberties Union raises some serious questions about the use of punitive solitary confinement in the state’s prisons. The state has approximately 5,000 beds in special housing units (SHU’s) — many of them built during the last 20 years — at 39 prisons, says the report. Each day, […]
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Fighting the long fight: activist Clare Regan
Along the timeline of death penalty reform, 1978 was a relatively slow year. According to Amnesty International, only Denmark outlawed the practice that year. Meanwhile in the US, partly because of contradictory court decisions on the question, society was in a political and moral knot. You get a local feel for this from reading […]
