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I live in Rhode Island, and always have. Probably always will. I'm a social worker at an HIV/AIDS support & resource center run by a community action program, a hospice volunteer, and a graduate student.

I'm into: puns, napping, snacking, desserts (making & eating), crafting, listening to the same music I listened to in college, birds, and being drug-free and meat-free.

16th January 2012

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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
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Michelle Alexander, on the number of blacks in the criminal justice system. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander details how President Reagan’s war on drugs led to a mass incarceration of black males and the difficulties these felons face after serving their prison sentences. (via nprfreshair

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Source: NPR

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