Dramas Seem Tailor Made for Screen — and That's Problematic

Published August 12, 2013

Dramas seem tailor made for screen — and that's problematic

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Other crucial moments in the play, about the struggles of a recovering young drug addict who has returned to her affluent Houston, Texas, home, demons intact (including memories of how Houston treated the New Orleans refugees of Hurricane Katrina), are …
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Criminal Justice Reforms

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Consider this example: A court sentences a drug-involved offender to community-based substance abuse treatment instead of incarcerating him. … Had he committed the act, he may have been arrested, gone to court and been sentenced to prison. Avoiding …
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Matthew T. Mangino: Criminal justice reform must consider race

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For instance, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 created much harsher sentences for the use of crack cocaine, popular in predominately African American urban neighborhoods, as opposed to powder cocaine, popular in more affluent suburbs. In 1988, George H …
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