Liberty Links

Published: 
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Questioning Executions: On Crosscut.com: As our state’s first execution in many years approaches, Hubert Locke, dean emeritus of UW’s Evans School of Public Affairs, questions the wisdom of a punishment that cannot be revoked when mistakes are uncovered.

 Inequality and Prisons: Columnist Jerry Large of the Seattle Times highlights a recent paper by a UW sociologist that explores the negative consequences flowing from our policies of locking up more and more people.