At Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos

At Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos – Reading The Pictures

When Daniel Berehulak’s Philippine drug war photos won a Pulitzer last month, what was also on my mind was how they related to the homefront.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/05/philippine-drug-war-photos/

At the moment, there is quite a gap between criminal justice and crime fighting in Duterte’s Philippines and Trump’s America. Still, the parallels are troubling. Trump and Sessions are making private prisons thrive again. They are attempting to revive the “war on drugs.” They are unraveling bipartisan criminal justice reform, and prison sentence reform. They are reviving such draconian practices as the chain gang and life sentences for minors. And they are walking back federal oversight of local police departments