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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.   |
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? |
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
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration. |
ifeminists
August 4, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
In Defense of 'Deadbeat' Dads It is time for the prison release of impoverished deadbeat dads to become official policy in every corner of North America. |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
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. |
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. |
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... |
ifeminists
September 28, 2005
Leving & Sacks |
Schwarzenegger Should Sign Bill to Reduce Prisoner Recidivism With AB 862 California Democrats are promoting a common sense way to reduce prisoner recidivism and facilitate ex-offenders' reintegration into society. By contrast, the California State Assembly Republican Caucus has chosen to play politics. |
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. |
Inc.
January 2009
Mike Hofman |
Some Good Earners Preparing prison inmates to start businesses upon their release. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2007
Billy Fisher |
Locked In to GEO Group Crime seems to pay at GEO Group. The stock price jumps again as the prison operator reports good earnings and continues to grow. |
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... |
ifeminists
August 19, 2003
Jennifer Roback Morse |
Parents or Prisons For some people, prisons are a substitute for parents. This apparent overstatement is shorthand for two more precise points. |
BusinessWeek
April 28, 2011
Mildenberg & Nash |
California, Texas, and State Workers' Pay As California tries to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, state workers - who earn 25.2 percent more than their counterparts in Texas - face cuts. |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Barry Yeoman |
Steel Town Lockdown Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. |
Wired
October 2009
Vince Beiser |
Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime, but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea: Stop treating lawbreakers like criminals. |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2007
Richard S. Dunham |
Execs On The Sidelines With no clear front-runner, few bosses are betting on GOP hopefuls. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
March 21, 2005
Lawrence Meyers |
Don't Go Directly to Jail Do private prisons make for secure investments? Four major public companies currently deal in this business: Cornell Corrections, Corrections Corporation of America, Correctional Services, and The Geo Group. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Drug war politics The presidential candidates have not widely touted their plans to deal with drug abuse. Is it because of their own suspect histories? |
Salon.com
August 27, 2001
Sara Kelly |
Detention convention At the 131st Congress of Correction, the incarceration industry puts on a bizarre show. From execution jokes to soap -- without a rope -- it's a great place for networking... |
AskMen.com
Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Vince Beiser |
Prisoners Run Gangs, Plan Escapes, and Even Order Hits With Smuggled Cellphones Prisoners are using cell phones to make calls, send text messages, and email to taunt their victims, intimidate witnesses, run gangs, and organize escapes. |
IDB America
March 2002
Daniel Drosdoff |
Prompt justice Venezuela undertakes a sweeping reform of its courts... |
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." |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Motherless children The drug war has stamped an entire class of parents as permanently unfit... |
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... |
Salon.com
August 5, 2002
Michelle Goldberg |
Noelle Bush gets rehab, the poor and black get hard time Fed up with draconian drug penalties, a coalition led by angry mothers is threatening to overturn some of the country's harshest laws. |
Salon.com
July 26, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Busting the prison-industrial complex After years of tougher sentencing laws and increased incarceration of juveniles, the tide in California is beginning to turn... |
Salon.com
March 10, 2001
Gary Kamiya |
Childhood's end Lionel Tate was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he committed when he was 12. Is this really the America we want? |
Salon.com
October 30, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
The drug war's littlest victims Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime. |
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. |
Reason
April 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Bush's Second Term: Our Predictions Revisited Pundits, pollsters, and professors look back at their predictions for Bush's second term in office. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 14, 2008 |
House OKs Spy Bill, Rejects Telco Immunity The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and passed an anti-terrorism spy bill that permits lawsuits against phone companies. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Deadly lies George W. Bush and Al Gore both believe capital punishment deters violent crime. They're wrong... |
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
July 16, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Tom McNichol |
Keeping Cell Phones Out of Jail Cells As prisons try to block unauthorized cell phone use, companies are developing systems that cost over $1 million to address the problem. |
InternetNews
March 20, 2008 |
Bush Picks Security Aide With Wiretap Background U.S. President George W. Bush named a Justice Department official with experience in terrorism wiretap programs as his White House homeland security adviser on Wednesday. |
Reason
September 2004
Jacob Sullum |
Aiding and Betting Federal prosecutors say helping Americans find online casinos or sports betting operations could amount to "aiding and abetting" illegal gambling, a crime punishable by up to two years in prison. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Geri Smith |
Sister Of Mercy "The Prison Angel" provides an effective portrayal of the human side of Mexico's broken justice system through the tale of an American nun ministering to inmates in Tijuana's toughest jail. |
| AskMen.com |
Infinite Jail Terms For Sex Crimes? The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms. |
Reason
June 2007
David Weigel |
Farmer in the Cell After a crackdown on illegal immigration, farmers in the rural area outside Pueblo, Colorado, found they lacked the labor to help them plant and harvest crops. One answer is to use prison inmates. |
Reason
July 2007
Jeff Taylor |
Little Criminals Locking up bad kids with bad adults has long been recognized as counterproductive. Yet a recent report from the Justice Policy Institute reveals that many states simply do not have enough juvenile detention slots for young offenders, even those who commit nonviolent crimes. |
Chemistry World
October 1, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Researcher imprisoned for poisoning ex-lover Ana Gonzalez-Angulo was found guilty of poisoning her ex-lover George Blumenschein -- another doctor who was her colleague at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2008
Erik Sofge |
High-Tech Lockup: Inside 4 Next-Gen Prison Security Systems From radio-frequency identification (RFID) bracelets tracking a suspicious gathering in the library to a scaled-down version of the military's "pain ray," a new crop of high-tech systems is being considered to tamp prison violence. |
ifeminists
April 30, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
