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Policing and Mass Incarceration
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September 2021
Poetry
Benediction, Eastern Correctional
"Seated in a circle in the small room allowed us, the men wear their prison greens, like gas station attendants..."
Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes
Poetry
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Dear Mr./Ms. [Insert Name Here]: We are sorry writing to inform youof the death of your son/daughter [Choose one]. As…
Katherine Shehadeh
Forum
Forum, September 2021
Letters from our readers.
Staff
Viewpoint
An Insufficient and Impromptu View
Is there such a thing as a “good” police force or prison?
William Kimbro
Quaker Book Reviews
Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice: An African American Quaker Scholar-Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives
By Harold D. Weaver Jr. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 465), 2020. 34 pages. $7.50/pamphlet; $7/eBook. The title of Harold Weaver’s…
Alla Podolsky
Quaker Book Reviews
Cultivating Sanctuary: Hallowed Places and Inner States
By Gunilla Norris. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 466), 2020. 27 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. Friend Gunilla Norris has blessed us once again:…
Alla Podolsky
Quaker Book Reviews
Passion and Partings: The Dying Sayings of Early Quakers
By Jane Mace. Quacks Books, 2020. 142 pages. $19.99/paperback. Available at pendlehill.org. Most Friends are familiar with memorial minutes: the…
Alla Podolsky
Quaker Book Reviews
Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus
By Rachel Pieh Jones. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 280 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. Rachel Pieh Jones’s book Pillars: How Muslim Friends…
Alla Podolsky
Quaker Book Reviews
The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder
By Richard Rohr. Franciscan Media, 2020. 224 pages. $18.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and founder of the Center…
Alla Podolsky
Quaker Book Reviews
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2020. 240 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. The murder of George Floyd, which became a…
Alla Podolsky
Quaker Book Reviews
Just Us: An American Conversation
By Claudia Rankine. Graywolf Press, 2020. 360 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Claudia Rankine’s latest book, Just Us: An American Conversation,…
Alla Podolsky
Quaker Book Reviews
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
By Wes Moore with Erica L. Green. One World, 2020. 320 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $4.99/eBook. In April of 2015, I…
Alla Podolsky
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