On AlterNet: prison
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "prison"
Cassie Frequelz, Mother Jones. January 13, 2010.
Despite our obsession with punishment as entertainment, there is nearly no news coverage of children with incarcerated parents.
Dawn Davis II, New America Media. January 11, 2010.
Dawn Davis married her lover in prison because she was afraid that by the time she left prison, same-sex marriages would be illegal.
Dawn Davis II, New America Media. January 10, 2010.
Dawn Davis married her lover in prison because she was afraid that by the time she left prison, same-sex marriages would be illegal. She was right.
Charles Shaw, Reality Sandwich. January 5, 2010.
Entering the world of "Dead Time," the period a convict spends in the county jail awaiting shipment to the penitentiary system which doesn't count towards the overall sentence.
Bruce Reilly, AlterNet. December 22, 2009.
I spent a decade organizing sports leagues amongst those who failed in their struggle against violence and oppression: in prison.
Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. November 26, 2009.
All too often, prosecutors aid and abet the crimes of their informants. And that's just one disheartening outcome of American law enforcement's bungled dealings with snitches.
Devona Walker, The Loop. November 25, 2009.
This is not how our criminal justice system is supposed to operate.
Mutadhar al-Zaidi, AlterNet. September 18, 2009.
The Iraqi who went to jail for shoe-tossing at Bush has been released from prison and speaks out. "Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war."
Nathan Schneider, The Immanent Frame. September 8, 2009.
A religion scholar discusses the failure of the courts to grapple with lived religion, the prison crisis and why we are all religious now.
Anna Clark, AlterNet. August 17, 2009.
Our attitudes towards sexual abuse in prison leads to a culture of permissiveness that destroys lives.
Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. August 10, 2009.
The facility at Chino was severely damaged.
Agence France Presse August 2, 2009.
Bill Maher, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 27, 2009.
It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from market pressures. Not anymore.
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. July 18, 2009.
Cheney seems to fear that if our system of justice works, he could be in for some serious, uncommuted jail time.
Paul Armentano, NORML. June 15, 2009.
Rep. Mark Kirk thinks that the magic number of 15% THC concentration in marijuana should lead to a 25-year prison penalty.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. March 25, 2009.
Lovelle Mixon didn't want to go back to jail and at the same time couldn't find employment that would give him another chance.
Anthony Papa, Huffington Post. March 16, 2009.
When you look in the mirror you will think of your crime and how you wound up in prison. You will re-live your crime over and over.
Donald Cohen, AlterNet. March 6, 2009.
The structure of private detention and prison contracting creates incentives and behaviors that poison our system of criminal justice.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. February 26, 2009.
America in the Bush years was so vicious and stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.
Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org. February 21, 2009.
The quality of life for many young people appears even more fragile in the United States in this time of political, economic and social crisis.
John Forte, The Daily Beast. February 20, 2009.
Going to Exeter helped me escape my crack-ridden neighborhood. And yet, I somehow ended up in prison like so many other young black men.
Tom Barry, Dollars and Sense. February 18, 2009.
The "enforcement only" policy has fostered a national immigrant prison complex that feeds on ever-increasing numbers of arrested immigrants.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. February 16, 2009.
An unlikely senator takes on the cause of reforming America's overloaded and barbaric jails.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 4, 2008.
"More Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium."
Hamedah Hasan, The Women's Media Center. November 26, 2008.
I'm a prisoner of America's Drug War, serving a 27-year sentence for a non-violent crime.
