Prison Industrial Complex

Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Drug War, Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Illegal Immigrants, Private Prisons, Obama Drug War, Drug Policy, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Mass Incarceration, Obama War on Drugs, Ronald Reagan, Prison, Richard Nixon, Crack Cocaine, Michelle Alexander, The War on Drugs, Cocaine, Crack, Southern Strategy, War on Drugs Failure, Black Voices News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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South Carolina Shows How Far We Have to Go

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Martin Luther King, Voting Rights, Republicans, South Carolina, Prison Industry, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison, Prisoners, Prison Labor, Prison Wages, Prison Inmates, Prison Jobs, Prins, Business News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

The next time you attend a graduation, remember that the gowns worn by the graduates are likely to have been made by South Carolina prison labor.

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Profits And Punishment: The 99% And The Prison System

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Police Brutality, Prison Reform, Stop and Frisk, War on Drugs, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Prison Industrial Complex, New York, Occupy Wall Street, Armchair Detective, Crime News
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

Who bears the brunt of so-called "tough-on-crime" legislation? The 99% -- generally poor people of color who disproportionately populate our prison cells.

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New Rhetoric, Same Old Drug War Policies: Drug Czar Addresses African American Community

Tony Newman | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Drug Arrests, Drug Policy Alliance, Prison Industrial Complex, Alice Huffman, Marijuana, Drug War, Drug Czar, Michelle Alexander, War on Drugs, Naacp, Politics News
Tony Newman

It is simply Orwellian for the drug czar to focus on the disproportionate impact of our nation's drug problem on African-American communities without acknowledging the disproportionate racial impact of drug law enforcement.

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Private Prisons Industry: Increasing Incarcerations, Maximizing Profits and Corrupting Our Democracy

David Donnelly | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Private Prison Population, Corruption Private Prisons, Prison Industrial Complex, Private Prison Inudstry, Prisons Democracy, Incarceration Prison Population, Crime News
David Donnelly

The growing influence of private prisons over our criminal justice policies is a chilling reminder of what happens when corporations can spend large amounts of money to curry favor with elected officials.

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The Prison Industrial Complex in the United States

Tio Hardiman | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Prison Population, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison, Incarceration Rates, Chicago News
Tio Hardiman

What more can be done to help reverse this ever-growing trend of locking people up instead of providing them with the necessary help to cope and deal with a changing world?

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Toward an Industry of Peace

Elena Quintana | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Mass Incarceration, Peace, Recidivism, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison Workers, Department of Corrections, Correctional Facility, Decreasing-Recidivism, Chicago News
Elena Quintana

When I was growing up I learned that, although not perfect, the United States had the "best justice system in the world." That bill of goods can not even be faintly passed off with a straight face to today's schoolchildren.

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Forty Years After: The Attica Prison Uprising

Anthony Papa | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Nelson Rockefeller, Riverside Church, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison, Attica, Rehabilitation, Cornel West, Attica Is All of US, New York News
Anthony Papa

The uprising at Attica was the start of a movement that sought to bring to light the horrible conditions of imprisonment. Surprisingly many of the horrid conditions that existed back then still plague the prison system today.

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Prisons and Politics

Michael Santos | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Eric Holder, Prison Industrial Complex, Prisons, Justice Department, Recidivism, Politics News
Michael Santos

My experience of living in prison for 24 years convinces me that our prison system has a design to perpetuate failure. Politics is behind that system.

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State Budget Battles Converge on Prison Labor Force

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Prison, Budget, Labor Rights, Slavery, Prison-Industrial Complex, Labor Unions, Slave Labor, Georgia Prisons, Prison Workers, Human Rights Prison, Prison Labor, California Prisons, Politics News
Michelle Chen

Prison isn't just about doing hard time. For many, it's about working full-time, too. These days, state governments seem ready to squeeze their captive workforces to plug budget gaps on the cheap.

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The Healing Walls

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Victims, Peace Circles, Restorative Justice, Prison Industrial Complex, Crime, Murals, Social Divides, Prisoners, Arts News
Robert Koehler

The documentary Concrete, Steel and Paint informs us with piercing eloquence that, through art and honesty, salvation and transcendent understanding are possible.

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420: Put Down That Joint and Pick Up a Pen

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Cartels, Law Enforcement, President Obama, 420, Medical Marijuana, Decriminalization, Attorney General Eric Holder, Big Pharma, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, California, Prison Industrial Complex, Rich Lee, San Francisco, Control and Tax Cannabis, Drug War, Oaksterdam University, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Given slavish governmental allegiance to the drug war (over the course of eight presidencies), skepticism is understandable. But unwarranted.

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So We Can't Have Single Payer for Health Care, But How About Single Payer for Education?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Resegregation, Public Schools, Prison Industry, Education, Prison Industrial Complex, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, School Reform, Prisons, Education Reform, Nclb, Reading, School Segregation, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

To produce education reform that is reform in more than name only, we need to look past our own political backyards at what might lie on the other side of the mountain. What I see on that other side is a single-payer education system. It's simple, sensible and, above all, just.  READ MORE

Has Obama's Handling of the Bank Bailout Undermined Health Care Reform?   One of the consequences of the one-sided bailout of Wall Street is the way it has undermined public trust in government.  Much of the health care anger is a proxy for bailout anger.  If we don't learn from the botched bailout, we are in danger of getting the same reform-in-name-only outcome on health care. READ MORE

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