"Copaganda … is the system of government and news media propaganda that promotes mass incarceration, justifies the barbarities and profits that accompany it, and distorts our sense of what threatens us and what keeps us safe."
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Activists from the United StatesLawyers from the United StatesHarvard University alumniYale University alumniPrison reform activists
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Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (The New Press, 2025), p. 7
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