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
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
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
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
"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
"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