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White Paper: Identifying Criminal Concentration: Data Infrastructure Requirements and the Role of Denial in Urban Decline

Posted on December 17, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across societies with sufficiently developed administrative and criminal justice data systems, crime is not evenly distributed across populations. A small fraction of individuals—often termed chronic, persistent, or high-rate offenders—are responsible for a disproportionate share of serious criminal harm. … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Criminals as Instruments of Power: The Role of Lawlessness in Totalitarian States and the Roots of Contemporary Judicial Leniency Toward Violent Offenders

Posted on December 12, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Throughout modern history, criminal elements have often been used—deliberately or structurally—by authoritarian or totalitarian governments as tools of political control, social destabilization, or regime preservation. This phenomenon arises from the strategic logic of regimes that see social disorder … Continue reading →

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White Paper: On Responsibility For Bridge Failures On Engineers In China

Posted on November 14, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Bridge failures in China sit at the intersection of rapid infrastructure expansion, challenging geology, overloaded transport networks, and a stringent but uneven system of professional accountability. Recent collapses – including the partial failure of the newly opened Hongqi … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The History Behind the Man in the Iron Mask

Posted on November 1, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask is one of the most enduring enigmas in European history, blending politics, intrigue, and legend. First recorded during the reign of King Louis XIV of France, the case concerned … Continue reading →

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Quicknotes From A Chehalis City Jail

Posted on April 11, 2025 by nathanalbright

On the one hand, my trip to the Lewis County Courthouse this afternoon was a bit of a bust. After picking up an associate from doing some farmwork, I tried to finish a work project after doing a quick change … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Prisoner Of Tehran

Posted on April 17, 2024 by nathanalbright

Prisoner Of Tehran: A Memoir, by Marina Nemat As a high school student who had been somewhat deeply concerned about the failures of education with regards to textbooks and supplies during the course of my own time in high school, … Continue reading →

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On The School To Prison Pipeline: Part Three

Posted on September 11, 2023 by nathanalbright

We have talked at some length about the ubiquitous nature of coercion in organized society, not simply directed at minority groups, as well as about some of the issues of education in particular. It is now time to turn our … Continue reading →

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Places That Are Good To Write In

Posted on July 9, 2023 by nathanalbright

One of the concerns that creative people have is what areas are good to write in.  Some people find themselves able to write in unusual circumstances.  Surprisingly enough, as it may seem, jail has been a found of creativity for … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Kidnap Years

Posted on February 4, 2021 by nathanalbright

The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History Of The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America, by David Stout With a book like this there is all kinds of wasted potential. This is a book that could have been great, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How To Be Alone

Posted on November 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

How To Be Alone: Essays, by Jonathan Franzen One of the reasons why so much of contemporary fiction is metafictional, not that this is necessarily a bad thing, is that so many writers of fiction are so heavily consumed with … Continue reading →

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