Fed by a War on Drugs, that targeted Black and brown communities, and increasingly punitive policing and prosecution practices, millions of women have been taken from their families.
I witness the judgment you are experiencing; the outrage being projected onto you from some quarters; the not so kind laughter; the punitive policing of your chosen identity; the public shaming.
As Congress debated its punitive law against Russia, the police in Russia reopened the criminal case against Mr. Magnitsky last February, saying it would provide a chance for relatives and supporters to clear his name, in effect to defend his reputation.
And then some city officials, in a move that demonstrates how out of touch they are, announced plans to reward the police for their punitive law enforcement tactics with a new pot of public money.
More recently, the Los Angeles Unified School District shifted from a punitive policy in which police cited students for truancy if they were late, even if they were walking to school, to one designed to address the reasons for poor attendance.
GPs wished to be seen as separate from children's social care and paediatric services, which they thought patients saw as punitive and policing (box 3, quotes 1 3).
A recent report released by the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) examined the number of punitive interactions between police officers and New Yorkers, which totaled nearly two million last year.
But festivals don't have the media stigma or face the punitive legislation and policing that raves do.
"This isn't a punitive bill on the police or peace officers," Coleman told the Chronicle.
They paid in blood; a police-led punitive party shot down as many as 70 Aboriginal men and women.
