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futility closet Criminal mastermind arrested for robbing same bank, twice Séamus Bellamy

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crime SLIM: An open, transparent, hand-computable sentencing algorithm Cory Doctorow

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Business America's prisons are replacing vital in-person visits with expensive, nonfunctional video calling Cory Doctorow

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