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Prison

News Analysis

Witness to Innocence: Wrongful Execution and Exoneration

Steidl spent twelve years on Illinois’ death row, awaiting execution by lethal injection and five more years as an LWOP (Life Without Parole) prisoner before he was finally…
by
Robert Wilbur,
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July 22, 2012
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News Analysis

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.
by
Arun Gupta,
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July 18, 2012
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News Analysis

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…
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Victoria Law,
Truthout
June 30, 2012
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Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

Prison Crisis: Local Solution?

Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis?
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George Lavender,
National Radio Project
June 30, 2012
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News Analysis

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.
by
Natasha Lennard,
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June 28, 2012
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News Analysis

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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Mark Karlin,
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June 22, 2012
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News Analysis

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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Angola 3 News,
Angola 3 News
June 19, 2012
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News Analysis

“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…
by
Jules Lobel,
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June 9, 2012
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News

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…
by
Rania Khalek,
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June 6, 2012
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News

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.
by
Yana Kunichoff,
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May 30, 2012
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