Locking people up and keeping them behind bars is one of the North Country’s biggest industries. There are more than twenty jails and prison facilities scattered across our rural region. Corrections and law enforcement agencies provide high-paying jobs…
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Why don’t we talk more about North Country prisons? | NCPR News
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HBM019: The Other One Percent
In 2006, Pete Brook moved from England to California to study the museum at San Quentin State Prison. Through his research, he learned of America’s first-in-the-world rates of incarceration inside of prisons that are largely hidden from view. In 2008, Pete began Prison Photography, a blog that dissects images of prisons and prisoners. This week’s show is about Pete Brook’s 2011 journey across America to interview photographers, criminologists, and, most of all, the prisoners of New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Look at photos from the Sing Sing Workshop by Tim Matsui. Here Be Monsters is now on Stitcher! Music: Phantom Fauna
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‘Million-Dollar Blocks’ Map Incarceration’s Costs : NPR
Many cities spend millions on prisons annually, and often those moving in and out of jail come from the same neighborhoods. The Justice Mapping Center maps those costs, block by block, to help policymakers visualize where those public dollars are going â and determine if they could be better spent.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/02/162149431/million-dollar-blocks-map-incarcerations-costs
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BBC Crossing Continents: The Angola Two
Tim Franks looks at the case of two prison inmates who have been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for 40 years - believed to be the longest period of time in US history.
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