"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?
In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.
In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.
Jillian York | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
Omidreza was you. He was me. He simply was born in the wrong country, at the wrong time, and chose the wrong day to write about something he believed in.
Anthony Papa | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
The reason my mugshot was on the New York Times site is because they featured me in a video on the New York Assembly passing legislation yesterday to overhaul the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
John Hood | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
Ironically, if John kicks back he goes back to prison. Meanwhile the government can stomp on him as much as they want.
Gabriel London | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
With prisons running at just under double capacity for the last decade, judges have ruled that California has been unable to meet the health and mental care needs of its whopping 157,000 inmates.
Anthony Citrano | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics
How can a nation committed to justice continue to enforce policies that corrode liberties, destroy communities, strain police forces, and empower violent criminals?
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
In Pennsylvania they caught two judges jailing kids for profit. I think it would be a good idea to look into all situations of people of all ages being sentenced to any privately-run facility.
Sally Kohn | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
What better way to welcome immigrants to America, where everyone is supposedly innocent until proven guilty, than march them in chains to a temporary concentration camp encircled with a high-voltage fence.
Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
The list of prisoners who have been or are presently at Supermax is quite distinguished as prison rosters go; it includes Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber," and Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber."
A Pakistan News | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
A 40-year-old Irish woman who forced her teenage son to have sex with her and abused her other five children for years in a rat-infested "house of hor...
John Terzano | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
Tim Masters was fifteen years old at the time of his alleged crime, and was not convicted until 12 years later. He languished in prison for almost ten years, and spent half his life trying to prove his innocence.
Jason Flom | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. He can begin by using the pardon power generously to correct as many individual cases of injustice as possible.
Ira Glasser | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics
It's Christmas Day, and Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace are about to begin their 37th year in the dungeon of Angola Prison. A crucifixion. Where is the public outrage that will resurrect them?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
Sholom Mordechai was essentially a glorified shochet and butcher, the country's largest producer of kosher meat. His beard and black hat were enough to unnerve many Jews.
Forbes.com | Kai Falkenberg | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
So, you're relocating from the boardroom to the prison cell. You certainly won't be needing that country club membership. But even in Club Fed, there ...
Matt Elrod | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
A significant reallocation of scarce resources from criminal justice to public health solutions is long overdue, but drug policy is multi-disciplinary and international in scope.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
Recently, I sat down with the Minnesota Vikings' Adrian Peterson. Peterson's athletic accomplishments are remarkable; however, not for his records, but rather for the adversity he's overcome.
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
With the current economic downturn, all government programs -- including the death penalty -- should be evaluated on whether the "benefits" they confer are worth the cost.
Randy Credico | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
Williams' woeful tale reads like an Americanized version of a Russian novel -- a tome written in four full boxes of records concerning his arrest, interrogation, trial, incarceration and appeals.
John Terzano | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Post-conviction DNA testing has lead to the exoneration of more than 200 wrongfully convicted individuals in the United States. But testing cannot take place unless the evidence is preserved.
Jerry Brown | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
Proposition 5 could have provided sensible, understandable and needed improvements to the criminal Justice System. Unfortunately, it did not. Not even close.
Gabriel London | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
DeFriest is one of 200,000 mentally ill prisoners behind bars in America. Like many of them, he has never received treatment, has rarely been medicated and is consistently punished for his symptoms.
Dave Fratello | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Say you've got a huge prison crisis in your state. Who you gonna call? In California, you might call the five living governors together. And Thursday, someone did.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
The drug war continues to be an electrified third rail in American politics. And political money continues to be a roadblock to real reform. Don't believe the hype. Vote Yes on Prop 5.
Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics