Metro Times, 27 Feb 2013 – Mass Incarceration Reaches Epic Proportions in ‘The Land of the Free’ There are certain statistics that should make people gasp with horror and seethe with outrage. Here is one of those numbers: 716.

Metro Times, 24 Oct 2012 – U.S. Prison System Dwarfs Other Nations’, but What Does It Really Cost Us? Among other highlights of the labor history conference at WSU last week was a keynote presentation given by Heather Ann Thompson, an associate professor of history at Philadelphia’s Temple University.