Bill Keller

Author 'What's Prison For' coming fall 2022, Columbia Global Reports

2014-2019 Founding Editor-in-chief, The Marshall Project

1984-2014 NY Times

[Bill Keller @billkellernyc]

While reporting for my forthcoming book on prisons in America, I interviewed a Texas lifer named Aaron Flaherty, who wrote an insider's manual for how to fix the state prison system. It's just come out as a book. It belongs on Greg Abbott's must-read list.
https://t.co/R7P60zpdaT

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I know we often win the global race to the bottom (see mass incarceration) but this NYT chart is haunting.

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And now back to the heartbreak.

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Loved Adam Gopnik's celebration of rhyme. Wish he'd included my favorite Leiber & Stoller "Poison Ivy" couplet (via the Coasters):
"You're gonna need an ocean/
Of calamine lotion..."

The Rules of Rhyme https://t.co/zTrXKuaObL via @NewYorker

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Coming in October from Columbia Global Reports:

https://t.co/Ybv1jSCJtU

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The Cynical Spectacle of Sarah Palin’s Lawsuit Against the New York Times https://t.co/xKZOoK893g via @politico

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Why Intellectuals Support Dictators https://t.co/ekV8owFvlf

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Molly Keller bearing witness. So much for NYPD training reforms. (And how about those masks?!)

[mk @complex_carb]

NYPD officers “protecting and serving” peaceful protesters at the corner of Church and Bedford. THEY are the violence. @EqualFlatbush #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor #JusticeforAhmaudArbery #BlackLivesMatter  #NYPD

[mk @complex_carb]

NYPD officers “protecting and serving” peaceful protesters at the corner of Church and Bedford. THEY are the violence. @EqualFlatbush #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor #JusticeforAhmaudArbery #BlackLivesMatter  #NYPD

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Whatever your opinion on the issue of hate crimes, this doc will make you think.

[The Marshall Project @MarshallProj]

In 2015, Craig Hicks murdered three of his Muslim neighbors in Durham, North Carolina. The victims' family pleaded for a hate crimes charge. He said it was triggered by a parking dispute.

The Marshall Project revisits the case in a new documentary. https://t.co/eJlktHvrsv

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Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories. https://t.co/6vWnA3jYHX
A smart and timely piece, beautifully executed.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Highlights A Staffing Crisis in Federal Prisons https://t.co/lORf9Q9VgT via @MarshallProj

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A Con Artist Promised Freedom. Prisoners’ Families Paid the Price. https://t.co/Ny3vIJMD3c via @MarshallProj

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July 21, 1969 https://t.co/exX5ZFgAJX via @theonion

[Dana Goldstein @DanaGoldstein]

I mean this is stunningly ahistorical. A de Blasio appointee saying, on the record, "Segregation is a question of choice." Great reporting by @jdavidgoodman https://t.co/7JY0DzLo4r

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Corporate Confession: Gangs Ran This Private Prison https://t.co/AeSq2hapnL via @MarshallProj

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"We prefer to talk about what we do." Bravo for what you do. But it's not unreasonable to ask what you want. Should ANYONE be incarcerated?

The Case for Abolition https://t.co/9Fh7nvA7XM via @MarshallProj

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"I've done a lot of prison time," said one man incarcerated in California. "And this was the worst time I'd ever done."

Here, @abbievansickle and @mvilla1859 investigated the state of California jails. https://t.co/2CCrMt8zro

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A new and important audience for us: 30 prisons and jails in 19 states have let us in so far.

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Introducing... News Inside! We're launching a print publication
that will be distributed in prisons and jails. https://t.co/G7iEiwlCFM