Stories by Liliana Segura
Liliana Segura is an independent journalist and editor with a focus on social justice, prisons & harsh sentencing.
Posted on Aug 11, 2011, Source: ColorLines
The country's largest maximum security prison features a private golf course, an evangelical Christian warden, and has been compared to a slave plantation.
Posted on Jul 22, 2011, Source: LilianaSegura.com
Capital punishment is supposed to bring closure to victims' families, but ignores the wishes of those who prefer forgiveness.
Posted on May 12, 2011, Source: The Nation
"The manner in which Texas carries out the execution of human beings is riskier, less transparent, and has less oversight than the euthanasia of cats, dogs, birds, lizards."
Posted on Mar 18, 2011, Source: LilianaSegura.com
Days after the death penalty was abolished in Illinois, David Protess, a professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism for 29 years, has lost his job.
Posted on Mar 6, 2011, Source: LilianaSegura.com
Even prisoner advocacy groups focus mainly on the conditions of confinement, without necessarily questioning sentences that drive prisoners to despair.
Posted on May 20, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. government can now keep prisoners in custody who have not necessarily been convicted of a crime, based on suspicions of "future dangerousness."
Posted on May 18, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Supreme Court has given a second chance to juveniles serving life without parole for non-homicide crimes.
Posted on May 13, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Hatemongers in Arizona are now taking aim at kids by trying to kill a program that's bolstered academic achievement by Latino students.
Posted on May 10, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Here's a fuller portrait of Kagan's background and what makes her tick.
Posted on May 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Lieberman's latest assault on constitutional rights: a proposal to circumvent due process for U.S. citizens by conveniently stripping their citizenship.
Posted on May 3, 2010, Source: AlterNet
As calls continue to boycott Arizona over its racist immigration law, many are focusing on Major League Baseball, where nearly a third of the players are Latino.
Posted on Apr 30, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Arizona's draconian anti-immigration law will create a chilling effect in the very communities police officers rely on to fight crime.
Posted on Apr 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet
It's absurd to buttonhole Comedy Central when U.S. troops are occupying two Muslim nations and bombing a third.
Posted on Apr 23, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling comes down to protecting the depiction of a gruesome act on 1st Amendment grounds, not the legality of the gruesome act itself.
Posted on Apr 21, 2010, Source: AlterNet
How racist attitudes barely hide beneath the surface of 'tough on crime' policies.
Posted on Apr 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet
University of Maryland police brutality case is a sobering reminder that an officer's word can carry tremendous weight against that of an average person.
Posted on Apr 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Josh Stieber talks about how the disturbing video shouldn't be seen as a few soldiers behaving badly but as a sign of a broken system where the same 'outrages' will continue.
Posted on Apr 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
While a military spokesman denied the structures were meant to be mosques, he defended the use of props 'that replicate the environment [soldiers] will be deployed to.'
Posted on Apr 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The most recent news from Afghanistan shows how deadly and dysfunctional the U.S. mission there is.
Posted on Apr 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Seven-months-pregnant Malaika Brooks suffered repeated 50,000 volt shocks for refusing to sign a speeding ticket, and a federal court of appeals ruled it justified.
Posted on Apr 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Piper Kerman's memoir reveals how prison changed her life, and why warehousing people who commit crimes is such a waste of human potential.
Posted on Mar 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Fourteen state attorney generals are suing the federal government, charging it with a power-grabbing violation of the 10th Amendment. Can it possibly work?
Posted on Mar 22, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Despite the many good elements in the health care bill, it deals a heavy blow to the pro-choice movement.
Posted on Mar 19, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Glenn Greenwald calls the bill "probably the single most extremist, tyrannical and dangerous bill introduced in the Senate in the last several decades."
Posted on Mar 17, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Promising solutions for international women's rights problems, the Daily Beast's 'Women in the World' conference ended up supporting the status quo for US foreign policy.
Posted on Mar 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet
No one knows quite what to make of Colleen LaRose. But get ready to hear a lot more about "homegrown terrorism" -- and why we need more surveillance to stop it.
Posted on Mar 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Conservatives are criticizing Liz Cheney's ugly ad portraying Obama's DOJ as an extension of al Qaeda. Is it partly because the DOJ has given them little to complain about?
Posted on Mar 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Perry crushed his primary challengers this week and also signed off on the 211th execution of his gubernatorial career, breaking all TX history records.
Posted on Mar 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Tapping into widespread thirst for a potential alternative to the Tea Party movement, the Coffee Party is launching real life, off-line, on-the-ground activity across the country.
Posted on Feb 27, 2010, Source: AlterNet
How much longer can we tolerate abuses of power by teachers and school officials in the name of 'zero tolerance' policies?
Posted on Feb 24, 2010, Source: AlterNet
At the same time the Obama administration is talking about a dramatic "spending freeze," it's requesting more money to lock people up.
Posted on Feb 20, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The new PR campaign has all the qualities of a George Orwell novel. Perhaps 'Operation Imperial Sunset' is a more appropriate name.
Posted on Feb 9, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Starbucks has become a popular gathering spot for some Second Amendment crusaders, but the company is pretending it doesn't have the power to keep them out.
Posted on Feb 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
In a bizarre fundraising appeal, James O'Keefe's co-conspirator Hannah Giles claims ACORN is trying to 'destroy' her -- and invites you to donate $35 to $5,000 to her legal fund.
Posted on Feb 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet
With Super Bowl Sunday only a few days away, the fight over Focus on the Family's overtly anti-choice ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is raging.
Posted on Feb 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
High-profile lawyer argues it's an impossible scenario that doctors would have suggested abortion as a viable option for Tebow in the first place.
Posted on Jan 29, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Obama is being forced to seek alternate venues for the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed after a revolt by local politicians, reigniting right-wing opposition to a civilian trial.
Posted on Jan 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Islamophobes in Congress like Joe Lieberman are trying to set the U.S. on a path to establish a different set of legal standards for Muslims.
Posted on Jan 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Obama administration has selected some 50 Guantanamo prisoners to be held indefinitely, without charge or trial.
Posted on Jan 21, 2010, Source: AlterNet
One expert calls the Citizens United decision 'the most radical and destructive campaign finance decision in the history of the Supreme Court.'
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