Promising New Partnership Seeks To Reduce Incarceration
The United States locks up a larger proportion of its citizens than any other nation in the world. Mass incarceration has exacted a terrible cost — on state budgets, on black neighborhoods, on economic and social justice.
The Poor Get A Moment
Will we regard poverty as a haunting national problem, or will politicians talk only about the middle class since mentioning the poor is politically toxic?
Clinton Calls For End To ‘Mass Incarceration’ As Riots Become Campaign Issue
“Clinton is joining a chorus of politicians demanding that police officers everywhere be equipped with body cameras.”
As Death Row Runs Out Of Room, California Governor Covets Space Left By The Newly Sprung
California prisons are running out of room to house the condemned men it said it would kill but has yet to.
Inmates To Butchers: Bill Would Create Meat Processing Program
Farmers who lament the lack of local butchers may have an answer in prison-based meat processing facilities.
Wrongfully Held, Floyd Brown Awarded Millions, But His Money Is Locked Up
After being wrongfully incarcerated, Floyd Brown, who is mentally ill, calls himself a millionaire although he is not allowed to use his earnings.
Glenn Ford Walks Free, Marty Stroud Never Will
Let Marty Stroud’s experience serve as a warning to those who persist in believing the death penalty is justice. The death penalty is, he now writes, “state-assisted revenge.”