Stories by Jennifer Gonnerman
Jennifer Gonnerman is a staff writer for the Village Voice and the author of Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett.
Dow B. Hover was paid by the state of New York to run its electric chair in the 1950s and '60s. The job may have cost him more than he earned.
Posted on Feb 1, 2005
Randy Credico has been fighting New York's Rockefeller drug laws since 1998. With the worst injustices gone, the activist gropes for a new strategy to repeal them.
Posted on Dec 16, 2004
Pot for patients may run into trouble with the Supreme Court, but in New York the cause has grown in popularity.
Posted on Dec 8, 2004
If Democrat David Soares prevails in November, he will be the first district attorney in New York State to get elected with a campaign platform advocating drug law reform.
Posted on Sep 22, 2004
A meeting this week of New York legislators marked the first-ever convening of a conference committee to discuss reform of the draconian Rockefeller drug laws.
Posted on May 28, 2004
Guards and fake prisoners are staging mock prison riots to test the latest high-tech restraint and punishment gear.
Posted on May 30, 2001
College students across the country boycotted their dining halls last week. But it was not soggy vegetables or mystery meat that got them riled up. Their beef was with Sodexho Marriott Services, a corporation which provides food to many college cafeterias around the country and has intimate ties to the prison industry.
Posted on Apr 1, 2001
