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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.
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 …
Prison Crisis: Local Solution?
Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis?
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.
In Florida, Minimum Mandatory Sentencing Laws Fuel Push for Private Prisons
On Valentine's Day this year, Florida almost made the unprecedented move to privatize 29 of its prisons, but the legislation was narrowly defeated.
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.