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How Speculating on Prisons Leads to Mass Incarceration
It's certainly one strategy to fulfill an unmet need; it's another to produce one.
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Reflections on “Columbus” Day
Columbus Day reminds me that my countryu2019s origin was based on violence, subjugation, racism and genocide.
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“The Measure of a Nation” Challenges Illusions of American Superiority
New book throws a much-needed bucket of cold water on a nation that seems determined to sleepwalk its way over a cliff.
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The Life and Death of an Australian Hero Whose Skin Was the Wrong Color
Pilger remembers Aboriginal leader Arthur Murray, who died recently after a life of hard work in the cotton fields of Australia and fighting for justice for his son, who …
Back to $chool: College Is the Past, Prison Is the Future
Over three decades, voters in California starved their state - and so their colleges and universities - of cash.
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Youngest Guantanamo Detainee Goes Home to Canada
Omar Khadr spent ten years, from the age of 15, at the Pentagon's prison camp in Cuba.
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Wells Fargo Courts Latinos While Investing in Private Prisons That Profit From Detaining Immigrants: Report Calls for Bank to Break Ties
This cycle involves profiting from the detention of vulnerable immigrant communities by understaffing the prisons and cutting costs so that basic food and medical needs are not met. The …
Haitian Political Prisoner Released, Says Repression Likely to Continue
Two weeks ago, a weary looking yet jubilant David Oxygu00e8ne stepped out of the prison building into a throng of supporters.
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New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard
Legislative limitations on New Yorku2019s ability to impose sentences of solitary confinement are required to end its excessive and inhumane overuse in our Stateu2019s prisons.
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Flying Kites to the FCC Demanding Fair Phone Call Rates for Prisoners and Their Families
Phone companies charge as much as $15 for 15 minutes in some states and many of America's roughly 2.3 million inmates and their families cannot afford to stay in …