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Rodney King Is Dead, but Little Else Has Changed Since the Riots That Bore His Name
Rodney King's recent death and the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising generated a lot of heat, but little light on what caused those historic events.
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Pelican Bay Prison: One Year Later, Policy Remains “Debrief or Die“
In the SHU, which comprises half of California's Pelican Bay State Prison, prisoners are locked into their cells for at least 22 hours a day. Over 500 people have …
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Prison Crisis: Local Solution?
Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis?
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Lessons From Occupy Wall Street’s First Political Prisoner
Mark Adams' short but excessive sentence is, for many, an introduction to the risks of dissent.
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How the US Government, Banks, Prison-Industrial Complex, Corrupt Officials, Businesses, Law Enforcement, Racists and the CIA Profit From Illegal Drugs
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits.
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Prolonged Solitary Confinement on Trial —An Interview With Law Professor Angela A. Allen-Bell
The newly released issue of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly features an article by Prof. Bell entitled
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“Everything Legal Is Not Moral”: Why We’re Taking Solitary Confinement to Court
When legality ceases to resemble its moral roots, it has always been the case that the great mechanisms within our civil society jump into action to regulate, reform and …
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Hunger Strikers at Virginia Supermax Face Retaliation for Protest Against Torturous Conditions
Dozens of inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's only supermax facility, have been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, May 22, in what supporters say is a protest …
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ACLU Report Shows Abuses in Georgia Private Immigration Facility; CCA Alleges No Knowledge of Bad Conditions
The report detailed widespread lapses in standards as well as punitive treatment of immigrants who were mentally ill or filed grievances about conditions at the detention centers.
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Prisoners’ Families Are Paying for State Prison Kickbacks in Order to Phone Their Loved Ones
The average state commission was 42 percent, but some reached as high as 60 percent of the money from the phone calls.