Live long, fight hard and prosper
Because of deeply personal issues I am taking a leave of absence from Daily Kos. Other than to say my reasons are not related to my health, I am not willing to discuss the matter in public. My return...
View ArticleInnocent, but forced to confess--to murder. Help us stop forced confessions...
ColorOfChange.org recently launched a campaign demanding that Illinois State officials immediately agree to overturn the convictions of men who were arrested as teens and forced to confess to murders...
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Be There!!! Sacramento Rally Against Solitary Confinement
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is holding a rally at the State Capitol against solitary confinement.Join us in Sacramento on August 23 NRCAT supporters will join several other advocacy...
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Indians 101: Indian Religious Rights in Prison
Some Indians are in jails and prisons. It is in this setting that we see the continuation of government-backed programs for the assimilation of Indian people into Christianity and the denial of the...
View ArticleA Prison Story: punished for being sexually assaulted
Jovanie Saldana was a prisoner at Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia when she was recently forced to perform oral sex on a correctional officer. In most books that's considered rape.Her...
View ArticlePrivate Prison update: "We will go into litigation if we have to"
Just a quick update on a story/diary/article I wrote a week and a half ago about the Arizona city of Goodyear and a prospective prison:Goodyear officials have agreed to go to court, if necessary, to...
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Perry proposed prison health care privatization
(Leschnyhan/Dreamstime.com) Tim Murphy at Mother Jones looks into Rick Perry's promotion of prison privatization in Texas. Private prisons have been a growing industry for a while now, and Texas has...
View ArticleAZ Prison/Industrial Complex: New $25 Fee to Visit Prisoners
For those of you who do not know, folks in Arizona love their prisons. The Governor's chief of staff used to work as a private prison lobbyist. Last year the republicans tried to privatize death row....
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The GOP War On Voting Is In Full Swing. Share This InfoGraphic
Rolling Stone just published an enlightening, albeit disturbing, article detailing the coordinated effort on the part of the Republican Party to roll back voting rights for millions of Americans. With...
View ArticleLatinos New Majority Sentenced to Federal Prison
Cross-posted from Critical Mass Progress:According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Latinos comprise the new majority of those sentenced to federal prison during the first three quarters of 2011....
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Criminal InJustice Boycott Edition: Last Words
Criminal InJustice Kos is a weekly series devoted to exploring the myths of "crime", "criminals", and criminal justice and the intersection of race/ethnicity/class/gender/sexuality/ age/disability in...
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