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Education is essential to prison reform


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In 1989, five 14-to 15-year-old boys, four black and one Hispanic, were convicted of a crime they did not commit. They spent between five and  11 years in juvenile delinquent centers and prisons in New York. Though the boys were victims of institutional racism and a flawed justice system that robbed them of a significant […]

Baseball documentary lacks revelations and a pulse


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Ken Burns’ The Tenth Inning, the latest in his baseball documentary series, is a crashing bore, and the most that can be said on its behalf is that Stockholm syndrome sets in roughly halfway through. For four hours, The Tenth Inning unfolds like a seemingly endless high school history lesson, covering the most scant basics […]