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Beth Shelburne

The PEN Pod: Incarceration Amid COVID-19 with Beth Shelburne

InterviewApril 14, 2020

“The bottom line is we have too many people in our jails and prisons for far too long, and that makes all of these other issues so much worse.” More

DARE: Facebook Identifies New Influence Operations Spanning Globe

News DigestAugust 22, 2018

Facebook and Twitter identify and shut down multiple accounts linked to Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns aimed at users in several countries including the U.S. More

Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire

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By: Robert Perkinson | November 16, 2011

A sleepy town surrounded by pine forests and tumbledown farms, seventy miles north of Houston, Huntsville was selected in 1848 to build the state’s first residential institution, a penitentiary.… More

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