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

James Freedman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home

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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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Child Poverty and How to Stem America's Prison Madness

Dan Brown | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Dan Brown

America's disproportionate investment in corrections rather than prevention maintains what the Children's Defense Fund aptly calls the "Cradle to Prison Pipeline."

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A Plea for Compassionate Release From Prison

Debrah Constance | Posted 11.29.2007 | Living

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Debrah Constance

When I looked into the information about Gary Tyler's case I immediately became interested in helping out.

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This Thanksgiving, Most of All

Jeralyn Merritt | Posted 11.22.2007 | Politics

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Jeralyn Merritt

What I'm most thankful for is that I'm not in jail eating processed turkey on a plastic plate: I'm thinking about the children of the incarcerated.

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