It’s incredibly expensive to be poor in the United States. Many have made this observation, noting not only the relatively high price to live in many places but also the prices charged to the po
Freedom Dorm. Sounds like a nice, hippie-ish, free loving place to live on some liberal college campus, no? Bard? Oberlin? But no. Instead, Freedom Dorm is the name of a high-security youth detention
Reproductive healthcare in prisons in the U.S. sucks. First, there were prisons that were refusing to allow pregnant inmates to get abortions, even when the women could pay for the procedures themselv
Yes, I know it’s a manufactured holiday, but happy mother’s day to all you moms. And, in true LGM fashion, in “celebration” of mother’s day, I am posting the most depress
Further proof that Henry Wade (of Roe v. Wade — and other fame and/or infamy) was a total asshole.
What Baze hath wrought. Good to know that Texas is getting all fired up to execute a dude in a wheelchair.
In an article in today’s New York Times, Newark (NJ) mayor Cory Booker compares trying to reduce recidivism rates and get ex-offenders jobs to “running on the beach.” It’s hard
Given all the press recently about the U.S. incarceration rate — which now tops 1 in every 100 adults — it should come as no surprise that the US leads the world in both total number of in