When I lived in Texas, I kept wondering if I should go to the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville. It was both horrifying and fascinating at the same time. Why.
Mississippi officials are complaining about the state's declining prison populations. Why? Because county, state, and private funding models were all built on prison profit and losing prisoners now creates budget.
To what extent does Hillary Clinton deserve responsibility for her husband's policies? How much credit should she get for the good ones? How much should we damn her for the.
I don't think anyone mentioned this when it happened two weeks ago, so let me do so here. Obama deciding to "ban the box," i.e., eliminate the job application question.
Michelle Alexander has called the prison system The New Jim Crow for how it replicates the racial discrimination of the past. That's only part of it though becuase a racist.
If you are like me, i.e. a good American, you are outraged by those herring choker Norwegians and their prison systems designed to rehabilitate inmates so they can be productive.
The California Attorney General's office opposed the release of inmates because the state wanted to use them as cheap firefighter labor. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that attorneys.
It's entirely possible that in 100 years, historians will look back on the early 21st century United States and remark not only on the racist prison system that shows how.
