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2 Murder Suspects On The Run After Arkansas Jail Break

2012-05-28T17:05:00Z

May 28 (Reuters) - Authorities in southwestern Arkansas have launched a manhunt for two murder suspects who escaped from jail before dawn on Monday ...

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DOJ Probing Sex Abuse Allegations At Alabama Prisons

2012-05-28T14:41:38Z

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Rape, sexual assault and harassment from male guards are a way of life for prisoners at an Alabama women's prison, according to in...

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Lawrence Benito: Let's Slam the Door on Private Prisons Once and for All

2012-05-27T00:59:45Z

Illinois faces a crucial decision: Do we allow a notoriously irresponsible company like the Corrections Corporation of America into our state, or do we send them a clear message that Illinois does not need this kind of crisis?

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Louisiana: The Prison Capital Of The World

2012-05-27T00:08:09Z

“Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among America...

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World's Cushiest Prison Has Tanning Beaches, No Armed Guards

2012-05-24T12:51:28Z

Norway's Bastoy Prison is home to murderers and rapists.

Here's what it's not home to: armed guards or fences. In fact, the convicts carry the keys...

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Pregnant Inmates Shackled During Labor & Recovery Win $4.1 Million

2012-05-23T10:19:20Z

Roughly 80 female plaintiffs have been granted a $4.1 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Cook County Jail alleging that the women we...

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Sarah Shourd: Simply for Trying to Teach: Imprisoning Bahá'í Teachers and Leaders in Iran

2012-05-22T14:24:11Z

While in prison, I once had the extraordinary experience of meeting Fariba Kamalabadi. During that brief encounter I wasn't able to learn any of the specifics of Fariba's detention. When I was later released and did some research, I was astounded by Fariba's kindness and bravery that day.

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Bus 52: Knitting Behind Bars

2012-05-21T11:44:53Z

As students and teachers settle into the quiet hum of the knitting circle, a cloud of relaxed calm falls across the group. Lynn and Sheila's knitting class is like many others across the country. Except theirs takes place in prison and their students are inmates.

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Daoud Kuttab: Nonviolent and Community Action Produces Results in Mideast

2012-05-17T09:04:46Z

Injustice is recognized, clear attainable goals are identified, comprehensive plans are assembled, hard work is invested over a long period and the public is involved. All this is done without violence, with strong determination and active effort and follow up.

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Mistaken Terror Suspect Sues Over Kidnapping

2012-05-16T11:38:56Z

BERLIN — A German citizen took his claim that the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan to Europe's human rights court Wed...

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Top U.S. Officials Sought To Testify At Gitmo 9/11 Trial

2012-05-16T05:06:39Z

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Defense teams in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order senior U.S. government officials to tes...

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Secret Prison Still Open In Baghdad, Human Rights Group Claims

2012-05-15T03:19:46Z

By Barry Malone BAGHDAD, May 15 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said ...

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

2012-05-14T15:23:39Z

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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Pardon Attorney Torpedoes Plea for Presidential Mercy

2012-05-14T17:22:43Z

ProPublica's Dafna Linzer reports:
A version of this story was co-published with The Washington Post. Clarence Aaron seemed to be especially deservin...

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Marc Mauer: "Prison Break" Lemonade

2012-05-10T17:29:07Z

For far too long, our approach to developing public policy on issues of crime and punishment has been overly framed by sensationalist imagery.

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David Shapiro: Private Prison Secrecy

2012-05-10T15:25:36Z

Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private incarceration company in the world, today convenes its annual shareholder meeting. Participants will pore over profit and revenue figures, but the real question is, should for-profit prisons exist at all?

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Jack Healey: President Chen and Prisoner Chen

2012-05-10T00:15:36Z

Prisons always tell stories, whether their governments like it or not. Dr King and Nelson Mandela had a lot to say that move millions of people to grasp the reality of their struggle.

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Paul Wisenthal: Mentoring The Tough And Risky: A Small Cadre Of Successful Women Mentor At-Risk Youth

2012-05-09T17:19:55Z

Jabious and Anthony Williams enrolled in an entrepreneurship program at their high school, sponsored by NFTE. In class, Patty Alper and Mena Lofland changed their lives and mentored their successes.

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Clarissa Burt: Sue Ellen Allen's Prison Revolution

2012-05-09T16:31:31Z

Sue Ellen refused to let Gina's untimely death be the end of her story. She responded by being bold enough to organize a cancer walk from the inside of prison.

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

2012-05-09T12:43:20Z

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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Was Your IKEA Furniture Made In A Cuban Prison?

2012-05-09T15:45:12Z

The flap is heating up over allegations that IKEA used Cuban political prisoners to make furniture.

A bipartisan group of ranking Hispanic members ...

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Paul Boden: The Power of WE

2012-05-08T13:15:47Z

Why wouldn't our government want the people being governed to be educated, healthy, well-housed and able to freely be in nature? Is it wrong to think that government should want these things for all people?

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George Goehl: Define "Extraordinary"

2012-05-07T10:09:19Z

We believe protest at the Bank of America meeting this year is not just normal -- it's the only response that makes sense. We don't want to protest Bank of America's shareholder meeting, but we have to, to protect our country from more unchecked corporate greed and abuse.

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 1)

2012-05-04T10:09:54Z

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."

Read more: Crack, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Ronald Reagan, Cocaine, Richard Nixon, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Prison, Obama War on Drugs, War on Drugs, War on Drugs Failure, The War on Drugs, Southern Strategy, Politics News

Sarah Shourd: They Were Arrested Too: Iran's Harried Student Movement

2012-05-03T17:53:52Z

Abbas Hakimzadeh is a good listener. He's not prone to talking about himself but he is eager to talk about the status of the student movement in Iran, of which he himself is a seasoned veteran and three-time political prisoner.

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