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Salon.com
February 14, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Another pardon that stinks Clinton pardoned a well-connected cocaine kingpin -- while letting countless low-level, mostly black and Latino, dealers rot in prison...   |
Salon.com
July 20, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Swept away Thousands of women, often guilty of little more than lousy judgment, are serving long prison sentences as drug "conspirators." |
Reason
April 2004
Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Hard time for soft crimes Two million Americans are locked up, most for nonviolent drug offenses. Some maverick Republicans -- yes, Republicans -- are trying to change that. |
Reason
February 2005
Matt Welch |
Three Strikes, Out? Since felonies in California include shoplifting and minor drug possession, cases of disproportionate punishment have become commonplace since the three-strikes law was passed. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Maria Russo |
Psycho factories Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons... |
Salon.com
January 12, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Hardest hit by the prison craze Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Damien Cave |
The business of law and order The author of "Going up the River" says that the booming private-prison industry is due for a bust... |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
IDB America
March 2002
Daniel Drosdoff |
Prompt justice Venezuela undertakes a sweeping reform of its courts... |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Prison politics Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has the largest -- and fastest growing -- incarcerated population in America. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2000
Eric Lassiter |
"Scared Straight" for the business set MBA students take a mandatory trip to prison for a lesson on ethics from corporate criminals... |
Reason
May 2007
Cathy Young |
Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it? |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
How To: Survive Jail Entering prison is not like your first day at school -- it's worse. |
Reason
March 2007
Radley Balko |
Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up. |
ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
Reason
August 2003
Jesse Walker |
Rape Behind Bars A left/right coalition has assembled behind H.R. 1707, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003. The bill would conduct more complete research on the problem and would "provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape." The Justice Dept. opposes it. |
Reason
July 2000
Cathy Young |
The Mommy Wars Why feminists and conservatives just don't get modern motherhood |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Damien Cave |
Jailhouse Net Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars. |
