Under Obama,Americas addiction to mass incarceration seemed to fade. But then came Trump and a hardline attorney generalShauna Barry-Scott remembers the moment she felt the American fever for mass incarceration break. It was an August morning in 2013, and she was in a federal prison in the mountains of West Virginia. She remembers crowding into the TV room with the other women in their khaki uniforms. Everyone who could net out of their work shifts was there, and waiting. well-behaved news was on the way,advocates had told them. Watch for it.
Some of her fellow inmates were cynical: it seemed like millions of rumors of reform had swept through the federal prison system to only then dissolve. Barry-Scott did not blame them, but she was more hopeful. Related: The war on drugs is racist. Donald Trump is embracing it with open arms | Steven W Thrasher Related: 'He's trying to save lives': the ex-addict judge on the frontline of the opiate crisis Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com