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INSANE: Cj ciaramella | Rare Historical Photos

C.J. Ciaramella discusses 250 years of prison reform, the crisis facing state prisons, and whether America can build a more humane system.

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Secret ICE Memo Tells Local Police Not To Disclose Immigration Enforcement Info Without ICE's Permission

The agency's transparency policies may undermine federal and state laws designed to ensure the free flow of information necessary to hold government actors accountable.

Reason

Miami Beach Woman Visited by Detectives Over a Facebook Comment Files Free Speech Lawsuit

The lawsuit alleges that the city has a history of silencing pro-Palestine speech.

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MAGA star skewered for gleefully promoting ‘official Alligator Alcatraz merch’: ‘The banality of evil’

‘I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well,’ Benny Johnson tweeted on Tuesday.

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Elon Musk, Who Promised To Be 'Maximally Transparent,' Makes DOGE's Numbers Even Harder To Check

The cost-cutting initiative's calculation of "estimated savings" is mostly mysterious, and the parts we know about are riddled with errors.

Reason

Biden's Messy Mercy

Plus: A listener asks the editors to consider the tradeoffs of involuntary commitments to mental institutions.

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The War on Drugs

How the FDA and DEA overrule the interests of doctors and patients.

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Abortion, Guns, and Hunter Biden.

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the Selective Service.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Really, Really Wants You To Know He Thinks January 6 Was an 'Inside Job'

The fourth-place GOP presidential candidate asserts the existence of "clear evidence" of "entrapment," without providing any.

Reason

Biden Expands Pardons for Marijuana Possession

It's a commendable, but very modest, expansion of a step he took last year.

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How Reason Changes Minds, Lives, and Laws by Covering Criminal Injustice

Yet another reason to donate to Reason's annual webathon!

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A Bonus Reason Roundtable Featuring Four 'Florida Men' of Our Own

Plus: The Reason webathon is happening right now. Donate so we can make more fun podcasts like this one!

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Gasoline Engines and Sex Changes for Kids

Plus: Minimum wage laws, space exploration, that time when North Africa was less dysfunctional than California, and more...

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Do the Proud Boys Deserve To Be in Prison Forever?

Plus: A listener question concerning porn verification laws.

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Will Biden fix our federal prisons?

Frederick Bardell wasn't much of a hero — but no convict deserves a death sentence by slow medical torture

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Storms and Reforms

Plus: The editors unpack a philosophical question from a listener concerning foreign policy.

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'This Is Not a Bluff': Putin Amps Up Nuke Threats

Plus: Migrants sue DeSantis, Justice Department undercounts jail and prison deaths, Juul sues for FDA records, and more...

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