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The Next Time Someone Dismisses You as an Arugula-Eating Elitist...

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 08.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Organic Farming, Organic Food, Prison, Chicago, Incarceration Rates, Non-Profits, Jail, Green Business, Green Living, Organic Eating, Growing Home, Food Security, Living News
Frances Moore Lappe

Suddenly, organic food looks less like a yuppie luxury and more like it could and should be a staple for our sanity and security.

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Criminal Justice: One Of The Enormous Non-Issues Of Presidential Politics

James Freedman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Jails, Prison, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Prisons, Jail, Election 2008, John McCain Torture, Barack Obama Illinois, Barack Obama, Prison Inmates, Offthebus, Adam Liptak, Southern Center for Human Rights, Stephen Bright, Robert Weisberg, Home News
James Freedman

A candidate like Obama -- who says "thoughtful things" and actually speaks in "paragraphs" as opposed to soundbites -- might be willing to address the topic. But don't hold your breath.

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Send Karl Rove to Jail!

Robert Greenwald | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Contempt of Congress, Meet the Bloggers, Send Karl Rove to Jail, Karl Rove, Jail, House Judiciary Committee, Subpoena, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

This sounds like a dream, doesn't it? Well, it's not. We have a unique opportunity right now to send Karl Rove to jail, but only if we take immediate action.

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Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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NEW YORK — For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting Ame...

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"24" Star Sutherland To Spend 1,152 Hours In Jail

AP | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.09.2007 | Entertainment

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Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest Tuesday in his drunken driving case and will begin serving a 48-day jail sentence while his Fox TV drama "24" beg...

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From Hug-Drug to Thug-Drug: Street Ecstasy and Violent Crime

Sheerly Avni | Posted 09.28.2007 | Living

Read More: Gun Violence, Hyphy Movement, Incarcerated Teens, Hyphy, Ecstasy, Jail, Crystal Meth, Teens in Jail, The Beat Within, Thizz, Hug Drug, Bay Area, Incarcerated Teenagers, Living News
Sheerly Avni

Here in Oakland, the X factor for many incarcerated teens has been a literal X factor -- the popular club drug, Ecstasy.

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