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Ending the Hidden, Savage Routine of Prison Rape

Mike Farrell | Posted March 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Albert Woodfox, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Wallace, Prison, Prison Inmates, Prison Rape, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Rape, Robert King Wilkerson, Stop Prisoner Rape
Mike Farrell

Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." Try it here in the U.S. But wear boots; it's a sewer.

You may know that our prisons are appalling. If you don't, you should; you're responsible. But even with what...

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How Much Progress Can We Make with Our Mothers in Prison?

Renata Cobbs Fletcher | Posted February 20, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Prison, Prison Inmates, Prisoners, Recidivism, Women Prisoners, Women's Incarceration
Renata Cobbs Fletcher

Last month, the Department of Justice released an alarming and little known statistic: the population of women prisoners has been growing at twice the rate of men since 1980, and in 2006 it increased at its fastest clip in five years. Because women are often the bedrock of their families...

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Changing Our Prison Systems Will Take a Little Bit of Intelligence

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted December 7, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Drug Rehab, Federal Prisons, Incarcerated Teenagers, Incarcerated Teens, Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, Kiran Bedi, Prison, Prison Inmates, Rehab, Tihar Prison
Michealene Cristini Risley

It was raining in Seattle last Friday. I spent most of the gloomy afternoon in one of Seattle's maximum security Federal Prisons. A good friend of mine has been relocated there for fraud. Truthfully, you might say she is actually in prison for not learning how to discriminate when she...

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This Thanksgiving, Most of All

Jeralyn Merritt | Posted November 22, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Jails, Prison, Prison Inmates, Thanksgiving
Jeralyn Merritt

Like most Americans, I have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

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. There are more than 2.4 million kids with parents...

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Prison Inmates Play Major Role In Fighting Wildfires

AP   |  GARANCE BURKE   |   October 27, 2007 12:41 PM

Read More: California, Prison Inmates, Wildfires
They've stolen cars, used drugs and forged checks. When California is burning, they fight fires. About a quarter of the 14,000 firefighters defending homes and businesses in Southern California from wildfires have been prisoners, officials said. Of the 4,400 inmates...

 

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