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Can incarceration ever be just?
Philosopher Tommie Shelby pushes me to question my abolitionist convictions.
The questions private prisons raise
Is private management more efficient? Is it wrong to profit from punishment? Is the whole idea immoral in concept?
by Alexander E. Sharp
Remembering Luther’s 95 Theses without forgetting the cross
Or, to paraphrase Thesis 17: Purgatory now!
by Paul R. Hinlicky
To Robert Ferguson, Calvinist roots lead European-Americans to see all punishments meted out to humans as righteous. Yet ultimate blame for our prisons is our own.
by Timothy Mark Renick
by Tim Townsend