Stories by Silja J.A. Talvi
Silja J.A. Talvi is an investigative journalist and the author of Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System (Seal Press: 2007). Her work has already appeared in many book anthologies, including It's So You (Seal Press, 2007), Prison Nation (Routledge: 2005), Prison Profiteers (The New Press: 2008), and Body Outlaws (Seal Press: 2004). She is a senior editor at In These Times.
In the largest-ever class action suit against the federal government, Indians demand an end to broken promises.
Posted on Mar 31, 2003, Source: LiP Magazine
An interview with criminologist Michael Welch explores how things have gone from bad to worse since September 11.
Posted on Jan 21, 2003, Source: LiP Magazine
No aspect of the lives of women in Islamic societies arouses such an immediate, visceral reaction from the Western world as the sight of the veil.
Posted on Dec 30, 2002, Source: LiP Magazine
In Washington State, a Hate Free Zone brings dignity and hope to immigrants under attack.
Posted on Dec 27, 2002, Source: ColorLines
The televised battles between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians have been framed as a battle of angry, armed men. But in the beginning, it was women who were the first to take to the streets -- loudly and non-violently.
Posted on Nov 14, 2002, Source: LiP Magazine
The drug war has become a proxy for racism as the 'get-tough-on-crime' policies of the past few decades target poor and minority communities.
Posted on Oct 10, 2002, Source: LiP Magazine
A landmark conference on drug policy convened nearly 600 attendees from across the U.S. and Europe.
Posted on Sep 30, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Three months after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of random drug testing of students in grades 7-12, a growing movement of students, parents and teachers are making the case that drug testing is the worst kind of drug prevention around.
Posted on Sep 20, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Most modern politicians wouldn't dream of explicitly advocating that society persecute or enslave poor people or members of minority communities. But that is exactly what is happening as a result of the 'get- tough-on-crime' drug war policies of the past few decades.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002, Source: LiP Magazine
A new report says that from 1985 to 2000, state spending on corrections was nearly double that of higher education. Worse, more African American men are now in prison than in college.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A new national report exposes the dramatically disproportionate numbers of Latino youth caught up in the juvenile justice system.
Posted on Aug 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
For three decades, American scientists cost-benefitted from prison resources, transportation service, facilities, and labor.
Posted on Jun 24, 2002, Source: In These Times
As a trade-off for adequate medical care and higher hopes for early release, increasing numbers of prisoners are subjecting themselves to experimental -- and potentially harmful -- medical research.
Posted on Jan 10, 2002, Source: In These Times
Ostensibly, race is a key, crucial definer of who and what we are. But the idea of race, scientifically unfounded and rooted in supremacy, is becoming increasingly dated and meaningless.
Posted on Sep 4, 2001, Source: LiP Magazine
Credit cards have become the currency of our culture, masking our financial woes and sinking us further and further into an enveloping pit of debt.
Posted on Aug 3, 2001, Source: LiP Magazine
The incremental progress that has been made toward educating and testing the general public about Hepatitis C -- a chronic, blood-borne infection affecting four times as many Americans as HIV -- is now severely threatened by what amounts to staggering infection rates behind bars.
Posted on May 15, 2001, Source: LiP Magazine
Timothy McVeigh's willing execution, delayed until June 11, has murder victims' families in a Gordian knot.
Posted on May 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
In 1989, Amy Ralston was sentenced to a 24-year term in federal prison for conspiring to sell Ecstasy. She also joined the 164,000 women locked away in US prisons -- a third of whom are drug offenders.
Posted on Apr 24, 2001, Source: AlterNet
"Economic boom for whom?" That is the question Chuck Collins, author of Economic Apartheid in America, answers in this wide-ranging interview on the wealth gap, consumer debt and the tax cut.
Posted on Apr 3, 2001, Source: LiP Magazine
For all of Requiem's visual appeal and Traffic's much more weighty overall impact, both movies manage to hang on to the stubborn and dangerously entrenched view that African- American male drug dealers await the sexual availability and servitude of Euro-American female dope addicts.
Posted on Mar 13, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The Foo Fighters, a platinum-selling alt-rock group, wants you to forget what you think you know about AIDS.The band has thrown its weight behind Alive and Well, an "alternative AIDS information group" that denies any link between HIV and AIDS and implies that people should not get tested for HIV nor take medications to counter the virus. HIV experts are alarmed that such high-profile musicians may be endangering their fans by promoting dangerous myths.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: MotherJones.com
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