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Rape Behind Bars: New Rules to Protect LGBTQ Inmates, but Will Immigration and Customs Enforcement Comply?
After living in Tucson, Arizona, for 20 years, Tanya Guzman-Martinez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and placed in a detention center for suspected undocumented immigrants
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35,948 Arrested Yesterday
Last Friday, the day the NATO 3 were arrested, approximately 35,948 people were arrested across the United States.
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We Must Reduce Our Prison Population
There is probably no greater waste of our taxpayer money than the increased incarceration of our population. The state of Illinois had a prison population of 7,326 inmates …
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Outside a Women’s Prison in New York for Mother’s Day
I had never noticed Bayview myself, having passed that stretch of Manhattan hundreds of times. On Saturday evening, however, to mark the eve of Mother's Day, I stood outside …
20 Years After the L.A. Riots, Revisiting the Rationality of Revolt
I asked a friend who lives in South Central to send me his thoughts about Los Angeles 20 years after the rebellion. The following is part of what he …
Of Illicit Appearance: The L.A. Riots/Rebellion as a Portent of Things to Come
In early spring 1994, I paid a visit to Los Angeles, where I was greeted in the airport at the arrival gate - that was still possible in those …
Hillary Clinton’s Silence Is Deafening on Massive Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike
More than 1,500 prisoners are currently observing an open-ended hunger strike in defense of basic human rights: the right not to be detained without charge, the right not to …
Anatomy of an American Execution
There are few acts graver than when a government takes the life of one of its own citizens. Executions often get a lot of coverage in the US, when …
America’s Top Prison Corporation: A Study in Predatory Capitalism and Cronyism
Last week I wrote about the private prison company The GEO Group and how allowing private businesses to operate prisons can affect our justice system, our laws and the …
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Connecticut’s Death Penalty Message
Greenwich - Since the 2010 elections, the activism of newly empowered conservative and Republican state legislatures has gained national attention with their wars on public employee unions, additional restrictions …