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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Incarceration Complex: ‘Beyond Walls and Cages’
Incarceration complex:The desire to imprison Walls and Cages provides example after example of how central the business of incarceration is to the U.S. power elites in the twenty-first century. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | August 7, 2013 … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Trayvon Martin and the Super-Predator Myth
Photo by Joshua Trujillo / AP Images / SeattlePI.com The super-predator myth: Trayvon died for our sins The evidence of a violently divided America can be understood in the failure of the criminal justice system, where rationality and objectivity are … Continue reading
Tony Platt : Prison Strike at Pelican Bay
Image from Los Angeles Times. The shame of California: Prison strike at Pelican Bay This strike has drawn worldwide attention to the widespread use of torturous practices by the United States against its own citizens. By Tony Platt / The … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Pelican Bay Prison, Prison Conditions, Social Action, Tony Platt
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Ted McLaughlin : U.S. Leads World in Incarceration Rate
Chart shows skyrocketing rate of incarceration in U.S. as of 2006. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE We’re number one!U.S. is off charts in rate of incarceration By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / November 11, 2010 The citizens of … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Criminal Justice, Drug War, Incarceration, Prisons, Ted McLaughlin, The World
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Jordan Flaherty : New Orleans Jail Struggle Could Shape City’s Future
Image of Orleans Parish Prison from BBC documentary, Prisoners of Katrina.New Orleans:The nation’s incarceration capital Struggle over the size of New Orleans’ jail could define the city’s future. By Jordan Flaherty / The Rag Blog / November 11, 2010 NEW … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Jordan Flaherty, Katrina, New Orleans, Prisons, Social Action
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Tom Hayden : Jerry Brown’s Green Vision for California
California Governor-elect Jerry Brown at Los Angeles campaign rally November 1, 2010. Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images.But it can’t be just for whites…Brown’s green vision for California Through all the political back and forth, alternative energy has been … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Elections, California, Green Jobs, Incarceration, Jerry Brown, Tom Hayden
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BOOKS / ‘Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America’
What I found striking in this volume is the extent to which advances in behavioral science and pedagogical experience have played almost no role in the evolution of corrections: Sentencing policies and prison conditions stem from basic, often religious and … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Books, History, Incarceration, Prison Reform, Prisons
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Texas Jail Crisis : Pretrial Detention up nearly 50%
Dumping Debra and Donna: Counties should reduce pretrial incarceration if they can’t afford health costs By Grits for Breakfast | The Rag Blog | August 4, 2008 Over the last decade or so, even as crime has declined, most Texas … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Incarceration, Texas
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Prisons : Why Texas Still Holds ‘Em
Forget oil and gold. In the Lone Star state, the boomtown business is locking up immigrants.By Stephanie Mencimer This article appears in the July/August issue of Mother Jones. In 1997, with the private prison business booming, the Corrections Corporation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Detention, Hutto Prison, Immigration, Incarceration, Prisons, Private Prisons, Texas
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Slammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration
The US holds 1 in 4of the world’s prisoners. What happens when you lock up 1 in every 100 American adults?By Jennifer Gonnerman The number first appeared in headlines earlier this year: Nearly one in four of all prisoners worldwide … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Incarceration, Prison Overcrowding
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