Stories by Bell Gale Chevigny
Bell Gale Chevigny is chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee and editor of 'Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing' (Arcade, 1999).
If Schwarzenegger is sincere about the importance of education and rehabilitation, he will grant Tookie Williams clemency.
Posted on Nov 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
When their government turned its back on them, survivors of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake were galvanized into political action. Katrina survivors may take a similar lesson from today's disaster.
Posted on Sep 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Unlike Davis, California's governor-elect is no slave to the powerful prison guard union -- so maybe he can afford to do the right thing.
Posted on Nov 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet