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1/ I don't normally publish political pieces on ribbonfarm, but this one is special. A powerful story about a pivotal figure in penal reform
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New post by @adamhump Robert Martinson and the Tragedy of the American Prison ribbonfarm.com/2016/12/15/rob
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3/ The post is the strange story of how a man named Robert Martinson shaped the current state of the US penal system
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5/ Adam tells the century long story of how misguided policies of rehabilitation paved the way for even more misguided deterrence policies
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6/ This is a story that is kinda above partisan politics and gets at the true depth and difficulty of institutional reform
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