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Prisons
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Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone
Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a …
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Correctional Corporation of America Accreditation Report Misses Stark Reality
But below the spin is a different reality for the company and the prisoners that it oversees - food riots and abuse scandals.
Michelle Alexander on the Irrational Race Bias of the Criminal Justice and Prison Systems
Michelle Alexander: Yes, I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.
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Let Chicago’s Anti-Torture Resolution Inspire Your Own City
In June 2012, the Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) produced a
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America’s Current Racial Caste System – We Need to Ensure That It Is Our Last
No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that Americau2019s current racial caste system is its last.
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Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
One of the great works in the establishment of civil and human rights is being shredded before our eyes.
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 exonerated …
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.
Election Countdown 2012: Occupy Atlanta Members Demand Georgia Enact Prison Reform, and More
About 40 demonstrators gathered outside the state Capitol in Atlanta on Monday to express support for Georgia prison inmates who have reportedly been on a hunger strike for nearly …
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Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation
Most of those fees are for felonies and do not involve private probation companies, which have so far been limited to chasing those guilty of misdemeanors.