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How Government Invented our Modern, Inefficient Prison System
In the modern legal system, the victim of the crime gets punished twice. In the case of a robbery, for…
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The US Has a Huge Rate of Whites in Incarceration, but Nobody’s Talking About It
Data provided by PrisonStudies.org is helping shed light on America’s incarceration problem, demonstrating that only the small archipelago of Seychelles, located…
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There’s Got to Be a Better Way Than Prison: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 4
We’ve been doing it for thousands of years. We brand someone a criminal, force him to submit at the point of…
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America’s Female Prison Population Has Grown 800% and Nobody Is Talking About It
Washington, D.C. — Holly Harris may wear cowboy boots to work, but the Kentucky mom and Executive Director for the…
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Thanks, Minimum Wage & Drug War: Nearly 1 in 6 Young Men Are Jobless or Jailed
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a new report concluding that in 2014, 16 percent of men between ages…
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Life + 185 Years: Three Stories of Incarceration
Their stories begin differently but end in the same place. Antoinette Frink, who holds a masters degree in school psychology,…
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McCrazy! Teen Charged With Felony After Filling Water Cup With Soda at McDonald’s
Springdale, AK – On Monday, an 18-year-old man wasarrested after filling a water cup with soda at an Arkansas McDonald’s. The incident began when…
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Are Harsh Sentencing Laws Driving Up Homicide Rates?
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness fact that the United States imprisons a far larger percentage of…
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The Injustice Of Mandatory Minimums
The Senate is expected to take up legislation to reform federal mandatory minimum sentence laws, but the measure is stalled…
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Horrific Report: At Largest US Women’s Prison, Inmates Forced To Have Sex For Basic Necessities
Ocala, FL — Lowell Correctional Institution in Florida is one of the largest women’s corrections facilities in the United States,…
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How the Prison State Destroys Families, 1 in 8 Poor Children have a Parent Behind Bars
The first wave of prison releases, under reforms put out by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, began last week. Approximately 6,000 federal…
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Over 200 Maryland Corrections Officers Arrested…And They Still Have Their Jobs
Baltimore, MD — It was reported last week that over 250 Maryland corrections officers have been arrested since January of…
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Black Lives Matter: Proof That Libertarians Still Matter
Even though the Black Lives Matter movement is clearly a form of group thought, it is proving to be uniquely…
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The Beat Up Squad: NY Prison Guards Accused of Brutally Killing Prisoner & Covering Up Death
http://democracynow.org – Four months ago, Samuel Harrell died at New York’s Fishkill Correctional Facility. At the time, officers claimed Harrell,…
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Ireland Refuses to Extradite Man to US Because Prison System is Too Inhumane
Throughout the world, the U.S. prison system is often seen as inhumane and excessively large. The American prison system is so…
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Thousands of Americans Have Been Illegally Detained in Chicago’s CIA-Style Detention Center
Chicago, IL – The Chicago Police’s CIA-style black site, Homan Square, has seen more people detained than died on 9/11…
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Man Arrested, Charged with Multiple Felonies for Telling Jurors About Their Rights
Denver, CO — Last week, a Denver man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies, but not for stealing, committingfraud,…
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Obama Frees 46 People While Three-Quarters of all Prisoners are Locked Up for Victimless Crimes
Last year RT reported that overcrowded prisons were forcing the White House to think about victimless crime. The outlay for…
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Strange Bedfellows: Why Are the Koch Brothers & Van Jones Teaming Up to End Mass Incarceration?
http://democracynow.org – This week President Obama has launched a major push to reform the country’s criminal justice system. On Monday,…
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How Bad Science Convicted and Executed Innocent People
FBI evidence analysis of hair was used to convict many people, though the science that was used and presented as…
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Should Condom Machines Be Installed In Prisons?/Prison Rape. Where is the Outrage?!
“Condoms could eventually be distributed to California prison inmates under a bill that moved forward in the state Senate on…