Chris Hedges: A Pipeline Straight to Jail
The defeat of the Harvard University debate team by a team from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills elucidates a truth known intimately by those of us … Continue reading
Video: Chris Hedges on Teaching in Prison and What It Means to Resist
In this clip from his June 7 talk in Los Angeles, Truthdig columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges tells the very personal story of how teaching a class in … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: I Am My Brother’s Keeper
[ed. note: This is the preface to The Visit by Sharon Doubiago, published by Wild Ocean Press] Jack Retasket is a Native American/Canadian Shuswap-Lillooet (Statlmx) survivor of Kamloops Indian Residential … Continue reading
Medea Benjamin: Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist
An interview with peace activist Kathy Kelly On January 23, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, begins a three-month … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay
You can’t unring the bell, he admonished, meaning 1948, Israel. So all these bells are ringing, Nazi, Kamakazi waves out into the universe forever and I have seen you, as … Continue reading
Nelson Mandela on Non-Violence
http:// Nelson Mandela on Non-Violence from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
Christy Ulmet: After prison, recapturing lost years of motherhood
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By Christy Ulmet Three years after being released from prison, Lashonia Etheridge-Bey sat in a booth at a breakfast place, reminiscing on her relationship with…
Video: Why are so many black people in prison?
When the prison system is designed not to provide “correction” but to create felons who are then second-class citizens forever, and when those prisons are holding hugely disproportionate numbers of … Continue reading
Prison Industry Making Billions from Border Children
Despite growing evidence that the private prison industry is neither humane nor cost-effective, for-profit incarceration has increased dramatically in the past 10 years, and nowhere has the boom been more obvious than along … Continue reading
Video: America’s prisons are broken. Just ask John Oliver and several puppets.
America has more people in prison than any country in the history of the world. How could things have gone so wrong?
Aramark Correctional Services Creating Security Threat, Prison Officials Say
Advocates of privatizing public services promise that the magic of the free market will result in better services for fewer tax dollars, but time and again those ideological claims run … Continue reading
Jon Queally: At Home and Abroad, UN Report Details Abysmal US Record of Abuse
Torture, indefinite detention, excessive force, and systematic discrimination and mistreatment have become part of the nation’s modern legacy. An official report by the United Nations Committee Against Torture released Friday … Continue reading →