Ditch the textbooks for these beach reads
In this book, Wolitzer explores the implications of childhood friendships that stretch into adulthood. Six young kids meet at a summer camp for the arts and quickly … All throughout the novel, Theo is tortured by both his love for a girl named Pippa …
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Jail-breaking point: Overcrowded prisons strike White House clemency chord
The enormous outlay for overcrowded US federal prisons is forcing the White House to consider clemency and entreat non-violent, low-level felons serving terms for drug-related crimes to apply for early release. … Given the overwhelming excess of …
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Imprisoned America
What benefit will there be to throwing this woman, who had recently beaten a longstanding addiction and was trying to get her life together, back into a punitive justice system that had no resources for, or interest in, understanding the complexities …
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