Amy Goodman, Michelle Alexander, Randall Robinson, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. January 15, 2012.
For Martin Luther King, Jr. day, Democracy Now! hosts a discussion of mass incarceration among African-Americans and how it has created a new Jim Crow era.
The interiors of detention centers might as well be black sites, cast off the political map except for the rare instances of abuse so egregious that they blip onto our radar.
In 1988, a federal program made Elvy Musikka one of the first Americans to receive medical marijuana. Now a marijuana activist, she shares her inspiring -- and enraging -- story.
After slapping additional time on Douglas' sentence, a clueless judge said he did not know drugs were available in prison. The author's own experience behind bars reveals reality.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. April 11, 2011.
All California has done is shift the burden of the state's corrections overcrowding to the counties, fails to fund crime prevention services like drug treatment, and more.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. February 28, 2011.
Ailes, who runs Fox News as his personal fiefdom, has been thrust into the spotlight for potentially breaking the law, allegedly telling an employee to lie to feds.
Bruce Dixon, Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. December 17, 2010.
Georgia prisoners have began a courageous, peaceful and nonviolent protest strike for educational opportunities, wages for their work, medical care and human rights.
New Mexico lays the groundwork for other states to proactively help people being released from jail and prison to find work and truly rebuild their lives.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. June 14, 2007.
If Paris Hilton can turn some of her celebrity limelight on the thousands of poor, needy females in America's jails it will be a mild boost for the prison reform battle.
