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.
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."
Betty Brink, Ms. Magazine. October 20, 2008. Women inmates die and suffer from medical neglect in a prison system that is much more of a threat to them than they are to anyone else.
Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check. April 3, 2008. One in 100 American adults are incarcerated. Their reproductive rights are crucial in the struggle for social justice.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 19, 2008. In the scheme of human rights and the U.S. criminal justice system, the case of the "Angola 3" is one of the great injustices of our time.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. February 28, 2008. Military spending and incarceration rates are also both cornerstones of the booming Republican public sector economy.
Silja J.A. Talvi, Colors Northwest. February 2, 2008. A justice system reporter explains how she fell in love with a jail-bound man and how their relationship was strained by his prison sentence.
Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 17, 2008. While women are being incarcerated in record numbers, the abuse they face in jail remains invisible.
