She recalls how the Kray franchise established itself: how they used the notoriety from the trial, the kudos from the Bailey portraits and the lurking menace they still inspired, despite their incarceration, both to make money for their prison comforts and – even more important to them both – to ensure their immortality.
Prosecutors possess much of the power to end mass incarceration and to make our criminal justice system smarter and more just.
I was incredibly honored to work with him, but I didn't know anything about guns, gun violence, homicide rates, mass incarceration or how to make jewelry out of guns.
Through another program, underemployed artisans would train women with a history of incarceration and drug abuse to make jewelry, mosaics and other crafts in order to learn a trade.
In America, where the free flow of information is more deeply entrenched, detailed mapping of the costs of incarceration has been used to make the point that taxpayers' money is already being spent in poor neighbourhoods, but that it is being spent on the wrong things.
During his incarceration the Royal Academy of Arts saw fit to make him an Honorary Royal Academician as a sign of our support and acknowledgment of his work.
There is a tendency, on both sides, to make ending mass incarceration seem easier than it is.
Alexander describes this very phenomena while trying to make sense of the incarceration crisis in the age of Obama: Black success stories lend credence to the notion that anyone, no matter how poor or how black you may be, can make it to the top, if only you try hard enough.
If the voters support Proposition 47 this November, California will lead the way for other states to make similar moves from incarceration to restoration.
Senator Webb tried a few months ago to pass legislation creating a bi-partisan blue-ribbon commission to make recommendations for reducing incarceration and recidivism but Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and other Republicans filibustered it.
