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Keramet Reiter

Keramet Reiter  is an associate professor in criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement and Mass Incarceration.

Paying to Be Locked Up

Paying to Be Locked Up

Private prison companies treat immigrant detainees like convicted criminals—and reap huge profits from the people they hold

by Keramet Reiter | Monday, December 03, 2018
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A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”