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Storytime Lets Fathers Form Bonds From Behind Bars Across the country, inmates are distance-reading bedtime stories to their kids and finding their own paths to redemption. Credit...Lorenzo Gritti March 11, 2021 Greg Williams, 45, doesn’t remember the first book he read to his daughters in 2006, but he remembers picking the shortest book in a stack, hoping he could get to the end without crying on camera. He imagined his girls in their pajamas, tucked into bed, listening. As he turned each page, he imagined that he was there, too. At the Descanso Detention Facility in Southern California, a...

Credit...The Heads of State By Gene B. Sperling Mr. Sperling was the director of the National Economic Council under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and is the author of “Economic Dignity.” Feb. 16, 2021 While controversial calls to “defund the police” have grabbed headlines, we urgently need to examine how we fund the police today. The increasing use of excessive fees, fines, and surcharges to fund parts of our criminal justice system is creating punitive debt traps for millions of low-income Americans leaving prison. Many find themselves in an economic prison: prevented f...

Why are they doing that? go, the city has also become threatening and dangerous, the property crime is the highest of any city in america. more than 5 dozen cars are smashed and robbed every day of the year but don't worry they have a plan to respond to this, it is not more cops or better enforcement of the law. that would be bigoted. the city has decided to ban words that suggest san francisco has a crime problem. people are not allowed to talk about crime maybe they will not notice crime exists. the board of supervisors, there will be no more convicted felons in san francisco. ex-cons are to...

Of his or her life, then if they already have that right, does it then become unconstitutional if they add financial conditions on it? in other words, they don't have to allow anyone the right to vote for the rest of their lives. what does it matter if florida says you can vote, you just have to pay fines and court fees before you do. on the other hand, there is a strong argument that that's really a poll tax by another name. let's call it what it is. >> if that gets to go through, doesn't it open the flood gates on other people who might not be ex-cons. they say no in order to vote you have t...

Leaders have a plan to respond to this and of course, it's not more cops are better are better enforcement of the law. that would be bigoted. instead, the city of san francisco has decided to ban words that suggest san francisco has a crime problem. people aren't allowed to talk about crime. maybe they won't notice crime exists. that's the thinking. last month, the city's board of supervisors decreed there will be no more convicted felons in san francisco. going forward, ex-cons are to be cold, cold, justice involved individuals. as it happens, the people they committed crimes against our also...