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Matthew J. Parker: Prison Reform Envisioned by a Convicted Felon

I’ve had a lot of things done to me in both jail and prison, but coddling was never one of them. Yet in the late 1980s and 1990s, I heard this word used continually to describe prisons

August 26, 2024 · 10 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: Ban All Books But Mine

Ron DeSantis is doing a Model Press Conference with Florida high schoolers at P.S. 47, aka Our Lady of Stand Your Ground Middle School in Panacea.

September 16, 2023 · 9 Comments

Chris Hedges: America’s Slave Empire

Three prisoners—Melvin Ray, James Pleasant and Robert Earl Council—who led work stoppages in Alabama prisons in January 2014 as part of the Free Alabama Movement have spent the last 18 … Continue reading

June 22, 2015 · Leave a comment

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