Tag: U.S.A: Mass incarceration

NOVANEWS Trump administration doubling down on mass incarceration with new Attorney General nominee By Steven Powers Photo: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library William Barr recently underwent confirmation hearings to be Trump’s new Attorney General. While Barr has yet to assume office, he has already had a long career as one of the most cold and calculating architects of mass incarceration as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush. William Barr wrote in his 1992 policy proposal “The Case for More Incarceration”: “First, prisons work. Second, we need more of them. Third, inadequate prison space costs money.” Barr did not even bat an eye at the devastating effects of mass incarceration, claiming, “the most common objections to incarceration do not hold up to scrutiny.” Barr i...