Starting this fall, Yale University will be offering a course comparing prison systems in the United States, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Communist China in the 20th century. "Incarceration is central to the understanding, if not usually to the self-understanding, of a society," reads a course description. GEORGE SOROS-FUNDED BARD COLLEGE OFFERING COURSE ON HOW TO ‘SELL’ PRISON ABOLITION ‘TO THE MASSES’Reading for the course will include first-person accounts from the Gulag and American prison, as well as scholarly works on mass incarceration. The course will also take account of prison systems in Nazi Germany and communist China. He said that sensationalist media coverage of crime in the 1990s – much like today – contributed to a "mass national panic, invariably racial."

Source: Fox News July 05, 2021 20:26 UTC