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The Prison Industrial Complex

For-profit prison companies, businesses that supply goods and services to prisons, politicians who benefit by trying to appear "tough on crime", a misdirected "war on drugs" and other forces have merged to create the largest incarcerated population in human history right here in the land of the free - the United States of America. The articles on this page explore this issue.

Dying Inside: Lifers, the Dying and California’s Correctional Paradigm

Jonathan Simon: Prison sentences must have limits to be rational and just and almost everyone agrees that California’s years of penal populism led legislators and prosecutors to produce sentences that having little relationship to either moral desert or risk.

By Jonathan Simon posted on March 23, 2014

In Black and White: African-Americans in the Criminal Justice System

African Americans Criminal Justice System

Justice is supposed to be color blind, especially in America. But is this really true? Blacks in the U.S. face overwhelming prejudice within the criminal justice system.

By Posted by Administrator posted on March 19, 2014

Movement Building and Challenging Mass Incarceration

Raj Jayadev: Is it time for community members to work with an often overwhelmed public defender system to keep people out of prison in the U.S.? One organizer in California says, “Yes.”

By Raj Jayadev posted on March 18, 2014

California’s Radical De-Incarceration Experiment

De-Incarceration: By managing offenders at the local level, California’s counties can develop solutions rooted in best practices.

By Mike Males posted on March 14, 2014

Gavin Newsom for Criminal Justice Reform

Lt Gov Gavin Newsom boldly offered a blistering critique of the criminal justice system and the willingness of too many in California to simply abide by the status quo

By Will Matthews posted on March 11, 2014

Children in Solitary Confinement

Youth in Solitary: The U.S. is still the only country willing to allow its citizens to die in prison for crimes they commit as minors.

By Muna Adem posted on February 25, 2014

States Are Regretting Prisons for Profit

Private Prisons Failing — If the private prison industry is being called out in Idaho, Arizona and Texas, it’s happening elsewhere.

By Posted by Administrator posted on January 19, 2014

Confession of a Drug Dealer

Drug Dealer — My vision for post-prison was to help negotiate the peace. It is not a war on drugs, but a war against people.

By Bruce Reilly posted on January 13, 2014

41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions

Albert Woodfox has been confined to solitary for over 40 years: animal rights advocates would be outraged if animals got such treatment.

By Angola 3 News posted on January 12, 2014

3 Ways to Successfully Reform Criminal Justice

California Policy Reform — In 2014, policymakers should develop solutions that reflect California’s most vulnerable populations.

By Brian Goldstein posted on January 2, 2014

New Laws to Help Californians Clean Up Their Records

Criminal Justice Realignment : Having a criminal history can result in crippling and indefinite barriers.

By Selena Teji posted on December 26, 2013

Mass Incarceration, Mass Deportation

Governing Through Crime — We must demand a full dismantling of both these legacies of the era of governing through crime.

By Jonathan Simon posted on December 25, 2013

How False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions Are Betraying U.S. Justice System

It does not advance justice or public safety for an innocent person to go to prison and a guilty party to go free. Interrogations must be recorded from beginning to end to prevent false confessions and end this tragic flaw in our criminal justice system.

By Audrey Levitin posted on December 4, 2013

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My Friend Harris Wofford Jr., 1926-2019: Prophet of a United States of the World

Tad Daley: During the darkest days of the Second World War, teenage Harris Wofford founded a nationwide youth movement which proclaimed that after the end of that war the human race could abolish war, by creating a “United States of the World.”





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Peter Laarman: Everyone in the auditorium on today could smell the bad faith in the comments of supervisors Barger, Hahn, and Ridley Thomas.

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Jim Lafferty: The pro-Israeli lobby is rapidly losing its propaganda campaign aimed at silencing those who dare to criticize the bad behavior of the Israel government.

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Daffa Zaky: Probably the number 1 thing you need to understand is to learn the basics first. Forex markets can grow complex as you invest more in the market.

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