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President Obama Must Free Leonard Peltier

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Industry, Native Americans, Leonard Peltier, Obama, Justice, Prison Inmates, Imprisonment, Crime, Prisoners, Fbi, Amnesty International, Criminal Justice, Unfair Sentencing, Criminal Justice System, Political Prisoners, Jail, Prisons, 1970s, Politics News
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Imprisoned in the late 1970s for allegedly murdering two FBI agents, Leonard Peltier has never been given a fair trial.

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The Devastating Consequences of Prosecutorial Misconduct

John Terzano | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Exculpatory Evidence, The Justice Project, Post-Conviction Dna, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Murder, Us Prison System, Prison System, Prison, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Politics News
John Terzano

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.

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The Quotable Palin

Chris Kelly | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Winston Churchill, Abortion Rights, Prisoners, Sarah Palin, Prisoners Rights, Politics News
Chris Kelly

Sarah Palin is what you might call "intellectually incurious." I think when Joe the Plumber is talking to Palin he has to slow it down. So where'd she come up with her fancy-pants go-to quote?

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5 Guilty Governors Fight Prop. 5

Dave Fratello | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Prison Reform, California, Prison, Prisoners, Gray Davis, Proposition 5, Prop 5, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Dave Fratello

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.

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Carswell Prison Blues

Betty Brink | Posted 11.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Cancer, Prison, Carswell, Medicine, Prisoners, Living News
Betty Brink

The medical neglect in our prisons is too-often accepted by the public as just another price paid by those who commit crimes.

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Prop. 5: Smarter, Cheaper Crime Policies

Dave Fratello | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Proposition 5, Funding, California, Prison, 2008 Election, Prisoners, Politics News
Dave Fratello

On crime and prisons, the Golden State lags behind many others, with a costly and overburdened prison system that now consumes more than $10 billion each year.

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Russia's Dancing Prisoner

R.O. Blechman | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Cartoon, Prison, Prisoners, Political Cartoons, Politics News
R.O. Blechman

Mikhael Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, now a prisoner in a Siberian camp, was sent to an isolation ward for having walked in the exercise yard without having clasped his hands behind his back.

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Immigration Detention: The Case for Abolition

Jane Guskin | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Prison, Prisoners, Immigration Debate, Immigrant Detention, Detainees, Politics News
Jane Guskin

By focusing on these compelling stories of human suffering, the mainstream media coverage has brought needed attention to the issue of mass incarceration in our immigration system.

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Israel Frees Nearly 200 Palestinian Prisoners In Goodwill Gesture

AP | DALIA NAMMARI | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Condoleezza Rice, Prisoners, Palestinian Prisoners Freed, Palestinian Prisoner Release, Home News

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians on Monday _ including a militant mastermind from the 1970s _ in a goodwill ges...

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

James Freedman | Posted 07.31.2008 | 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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