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How Bureaucrats Stand in the Way of Releasing Elderly and Ill Prisoners
By Christie Thompson Former inmate Veronica Barnes had three years left to serve in federal prison when she found out in January 2011 that her husband John was dying of pancreatic cancer. Doctors said it was inoperable. They gave him … Continue reading
Top 10 Ways the US Is the Most Corrupt Country in the World
By Juan Cole Those ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly “corrupt” always imply that the United States is not corrupt. VOA reports : While it is true that you don’t typically have to bribe your … Continue reading
Are Prisons Bleeding Us Dry?
By Sheila A. Bedi Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to introduce a mandatory prison sentence for anyone caught with an illegal firearm. But reams of data shows that incarceration creates more crime. The NAACP has been saying it for decades. A … Continue reading
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How Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man
By Maurice Possley During nearly 25 years as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, I received hundreds of requests for help from convicted defendants. None was more compelling than the hand-printed letter from Daniel Taylor, a 25-year-old inmate at Stateville … Continue reading
Ten Ways Criminal Justice Is One Of The Great Civil Rights Crises Of Our Time
By Nicole Flatow The last few months have issued several potent reminders that racism still pervades our criminal justice system, as even some prominent and powerful American black leaders publicly professed that they had to warn their young sons about … Continue reading
50 Days Without Food: The California Prison Hunger Strike Explained
By Maggie Caldwell and Josh Harkinson Monday marked the 50th day of a massive hunger strike in California prisons. The strike initially involved some 30,000 fasting inmates; some 42 of them are still refusing to eat, putting themselves at extremely … Continue reading
California to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners
By Al Jazeera and The Associated Press A federal judge has approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates participating in an ongoing hunger strike now entering its seventh week if necessary. The process, which prison officials … Continue reading
Mass incarceration does injustice to millions of American children
By Michael Leo Owens Reform criminal justice now. That was the core message US Attorney General Eric Holder delivered recently to the American Bar Association and our nation. He declared that “too many Americans go to too many prisons for … Continue reading
11 facts about America’s prison population
By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas Here’s a bit of context for Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to encourage federal prosecutors to charge low-level drug offenders with less severe crimes (thanks to Dylan Matthews and Brad Plumer for doing a … Continue reading
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