Thread by @femonomics

I am hyperventilating--IN NORWAY.
I would love for someone to visit Rikers Island and claim it has beneficial effects for mental health. And I want to be very clear that I am not critiquing the underlying paper, as I have a firm stance on not critiquing students/JMCs publicly.

https://twitter.com/jenniferdoleac/status/1463678836089008129

Yes if you use incarceration as an opportunity to connect someone who has gone off track to services and tratment, it could be beneficial. If your incarceration system has been designed to perpetuate the slave state and punish above all else, then no.

https://mobile.twitter.com/gus_802/status/952449071159103488

https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshuaPVaughn/status/1237167571159351301

https://mobile.twitter.com/EmilyAssembly/status/1437787196904325128

https://mobile.twitter.com/georgejoseph94/status/1435355898092851203

https://mobile.twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1282710356951875585

https://mobile.twitter.com/polotek/status/1462085890482737153

"We’ve long had the data to demonstrate that no, in fact, when it comes to the well-being of people who are detained by the state, incarceration itself puts their lives at risk....What does it mean to practice medicine in death-making institutions?"
inquest.org/treating-unfre…

This graph shows incarceration rates by country per 100,000. Notice anything about the US??? Might that suggest the criminal justice system serves a different function in our country? Norway is to the far left--you have to click to see it.

I really wish everyone in our profession had attended this session:

https://twitter.com/DaniaFrancis/status/1462489807167315968

And of course read @WSpriggs's open letter: minneapolisfed.org/~/media/assets…

See below thread for a paper by Feigenberg+ @conradcmiller that explains the enormous disparity in incarceration between the US and other OECD countries. Racial heterogeneity has a CAUSAL impact on the choice of a punitive criminal justice system in US.

https://twitter.com/femonomics/status/1273716003873177601

https://twitter.com/DMoritzRabson/status/1463962972565348352