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Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate.

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"Prison Break" Lemonade

(4) Comments | Posted May 10, 2012 | 5:29 PM

The New York Times reports that savvy marketers trying to reach new audiences are developing TV ads with several different endings. The goal is "to entertain the target audience of men and women ages 21 to 34" so that they don't just zap through the spots.

One...

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I Was Stopped, But Not Frisked

(48) Comments | Posted February 8, 2012 | 3:09 PM

Behind the searing light, a man yelled. "This is the police. Put your hands up."

I was only five minutes from home, walking through an unlighted stretch on my way to the community center to work out in my Silver Spring, Maryland, neighborhood, an MP3 of Stevie Wonder crooning in...

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