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Mandatory sentences

Stubble Trouble

From a court memo filed by attorneys for Samuel Mullet Sr., an Amish bishop from Bergholz, Ohio. Mullet was sentenced in February to fifteen years in prison for having coordinated…

The War on Drugs: A Judge Goes AWOL

by Jack B. Weinstein,

The cry to punish

by Harper’s Staff,

What’s Wrong With the Right People?

by Jack Black,

Jack Black retired from crime to become a librarian and advocate for prison reform; in 1926 he published You Can’t Win, a narrative of his life as a thief that…