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Why the US Has Such a Brutal Penal Regime

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By David Garland
| Jacobin Verified
Interview by Nick French Compared to other developed nations, the United States is an extreme outlier in the severity of its criminal legal system. Police in the United States kill civilians at between five and forty times the rate of similarly rich countries, for instance, and the United States imprisons people at about seven times the rate of economically comparable countries. The brunt of this aggressive penal regime is borne of course by poor Americans, particularly poor black Americans.
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Totality Without Signification

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By Ignacio Sánchez Prado, David Garland, Todd Shy, Mick Muerte
| Pittsburgh Review of Books
In the late 1990s, I took a college class called “Literary Models: Novel,” part of a sequence of eight such classes aimed to teach undergraduate students in the Literature program the workings of genre while enforcing the reading of canonical works. The professor, Pedro Ángel Palou, a prolific novelist, designed the class by assigning one novel a month. We began with Don Quixote, a mandatory reading for any Spanish-speaking literature student.
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Crime and Punishment in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave Original

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By David Garland, C.J. Polychroniou
| ZNetwork
The United States is a global outlier in several significant areas, not least of which is its extraordinary penal state with its penchant for extreme punitiveness. Indeed, as Professor David Garland, one of the world’s most influential criminologist, argues in the interview that follows, for historical parallels with the penal state in the U.S. one must look to the case of the Gulag system during Stalin’s reign as dictator of the Soviet Union.
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