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How to respond to casual dehumanization of incarcerated people

My coworker makes jokes about prisoners being lazy but her husband got disability after his back injury and somehow that is different in her mind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Selective empathy reveals the social construction of deserving and undeserving suffering.

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“Where Are You with Mass incarceration — causes and critique?”

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