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Plato Shrugs: ‘Ideology Post Trump: Where Do We Go From Here?’
Source:The New Democrat “Ideological turmoil in America has reached unprecedented heights. With conservatives falling into the unfalsifiable throws of populism and Liberals fetishizing 1960 solutions to 2020 problems, both appear lost in moving through the 21st century. What comes after Trump for the populist? What comes after liberals fail yet again to implement a child’s […]
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Category Archives: Crime & Punishment
The American Conservative: Opinion: U.S. Senator Mike Lee: The Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform
Source: The American Conservative: Opinion: U.S. Senator Mike Lee: The Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform I think the conservative case of criminal justice reform is very clear and comes from a couple of angles. One, the conservative principle of … Continue reading
The Economist: ‘Jailhouse Nation’
“WITH less than 5% of the world’s population, the United States holds roughly a quarter of its prisoners: more than 2.3m people, including 1.6m in state and federal prisons and over 700,000 in local jails and immigration pens. Per head, … Continue reading
The Washington Post: WonkBook: Christopher Ingraham: The Orwellian Deception of Chuck Grassley’s Leniency Industrial Complex
The Washington Post: WonkBook: Christopher Ingraham: The Orwellian Deception of Chuck Grassley’s Leniency Industrial Complex Anyone who calls them self a Conservative and especially a fiscal Conservative, but who supports the American Prison Industrial Complex and our current criminal justice … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment
Tagged American Prisons, Christopher Ingraham, Chuck Grassley, Criminal Justice Reform, Dick Durbin, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Mike Lee, Non-Violent Offenders, Pat Leahy, Prison Industrial Complex, Rand Paul, Sheldon Whitehouse, Smarter Sentencing Act, Ted Cruz, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, War on Drugs
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TruthOut: Report: Victoria Law: Public Prisons, Private Profits
This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger TruthOut: Report: Victoria Law: Public Prisons, Private Profits If there is just one thing that shouldn’t be under for-profit companies, it would be prisons and other corrections facilities like … Continue reading
Youth Justice NC: Video: North Carolina’s School to Prison Pipeline: How to Stop the School to Prison Pipeline in America
This post was originally posted at FreeStatePlus on WordPress, January, 2012 If you look at our current prison inmate population, you’ll see a lot of prison inmates who didn’t finish high school before they came to prison, or barely finished … Continue reading
Kristen Cherye: America’s Hardest Prisons- National Geographic Documentary
Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat This is what happens when you house the worst of the worst together. You have all of these violent criminal inmates who see their time in prison as nothing, but … Continue reading
Prison Documentaries: Inside Pelican Bay State Prison
This piece was originally posted at FRS FreeSate Now Plus Pelican Bay State Prison houses some of the worst criminals in California. Which means some of the worst in the United States as well when you have cities like Los … Continue reading
CDC’s Worst Nightmare: Inside SuperMax
This post was originally posted at The New Democrat For me at least it is not a question of whether we need super max prisons or not. The answer is obvious of course we do with all the violent inmates … Continue reading
TruthOut: Opinion: Laurie Jo Reynolds & Stephen F. Eisenson: “Tamms is Torture”: The Campaign to Close an Illinois SuperMax Prison
This post was originally posted at FRS FreeStateNow on WordPress, May, 2013 TruthOut: Opinion: Laurie Jo Reynolds & Stephen F. Eisenson: Tamms is Torture: The Campaign to Close an Illinois SuperMax Prison I’m not against solitary-confinement by itself because inmates … Continue reading
Prison Reform Movement: Blog: Rina Palta: ACLU: Counties Opting For Incarceration, Not Rehabilitation
This post was originally posted at FreeStatePlus on WordPress, March, 2012 Prison Reform Movement: Blog: Rina Palta: Counties Opting For Incarceration, Not Rehabilitation California has so many people in their corrections system as far as inmates. And so many inmates … Continue reading
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