late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
health Serpent profiteers: how a summer camp snakebite turned into a $142,938 medical bill Cory Doctorow
Business Canada Pension Plan is long on US private prisons and immigrant detention centers Cory Doctorow
Business "Spread Pricing" transparency reveals the millions CVS rakes in by gouging Medicare and prisons on prescription markups Cory Doctorow
Business America's prisons are replacing vital in-person visits with expensive, nonfunctional video calling Cory Doctorow
Business Shortly after her death, Harper Lee's heirs kill cheap paperback edition of To Kill a Mockingbird Cory Doctorow
animal rights HelloFresh still using illegal primate labor, says PETA: "Monkeys are chained around the neck and forced to toil" Elías Villoro
guns Sales of "Bulletproof" Backpacks are on the rise even though they don't protect from AR-15s Thom Dunn
the GQP Sore loser Madison Cawthorn threatens Dems and GOP with "Dark MAGA" in cringeworthy tweet Carla Sinclair
surveillance Neighborhood associations are installing license plate readers to privately police who drives on their streets Thom Dunn
documentaries Triple Chaser: a short documentary that uses machine learning to document tear gas use against civilians, calling out "philanthropist" Warren Kanders for his company's war-crimes Cory Doctorow
