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Erica R. Meiners

Erica R. Meiners is a professor of gender and women’s studies and education at Northeastern Illinois University and the author of For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State.

Are Sex Offenders Human?

November 15, 2016
In July 16, 2015, Barack Obama visited a federal prison, the first sitting president ever to do so. It was a powerful statement of support for a broad movement—stretching from Black Lives Matter to Right on Crime—to reform the U.S. criminal justice system, one of the ...