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Category: Prison

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While Rome burns, the ACLU rebuilds

July 26, 2018 Reece Ellis 2018 Election, Activism, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Consumer issues, Democracy, Education, Gender issues, Justice, LGBT, Prison, Supreme Court [SCOTUS] Leave a comment

The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United

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Prison profits

August 12, 2016 Bobbi Clemons Prison, Widgets 2 comments

Prison reform and prison labor are topics we’ve written about before on the Occasional Planet. American prisons are making tons of money hiring out

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A critical time for clemency in Missouri

August 8, 2016 Hafsa Activism, Charity & Justice, Missouri region, Prison Leave a comment

The criminal justice system is, by the admission of many liberal politicians, in desperate need of change. Prisons are overcrowded as a result of

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U.S. companies make a killing off prison labor

December 1, 2015 Madonna Gauding Capitalism, Prison, Privatization 7 comments

In 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery, but there was a loophole. Prisoners were exempt. Since the passage of the amendment, prisons and businesses

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Midterms: Democratic Party didn’t give people a reason to vote

November 12, 2014 Madonna Gauding Campaigns, Democrats, Politics, Prison, Privatization, Republicans, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

It’s absolutely true that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans obstructed every Democratic initiative. On the other hand, Democrats didn’t give people a reason to

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“I can buy a firearm, but I can’t get assistance to buy a sandwich”

July 21, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Crime/Violence, Food, Missouri region, Poverty, Prison

In a move that demonstrates a small—and too rare—step toward common sense in lawmaking, Missouri has rescinded [mostly] an 18-year-old law that banned people

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A Sliver of Light: Hiker hostages tell their story in an amazing new book

March 26, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Literature/Arts/Film, Prison Leave a comment

I’d almost forgotten about the three friends who, while hiking in Kurdistan in 2009, were lured across the Iraq/Iran border and then held prisoner

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Rule of law? MO executes a man while his appeal is pending

February 4, 2014 Hafsa Capital punishment, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Missouri region, Prison One comment

The Bill of Rights may have been passed over 220 years ago, but it seems to still not have been fully enacted. “Missouri executed

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Mass incarceration–the new Jim Crow

January 28, 2014 Abby Mitchell Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Police, Poverty, Prison, Youth issues One comment

I think it’s time to talk about an issue that isn’t glamorous or infamous, but it is so subtle and so completely off the

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Will a dearth of death drugs kill the death penalty? Let’s hope so.

December 5, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Human Rights, Ideas, Missouri region, Prison Leave a comment

Just a few hours before convicted serial murderer Joseph Paul Franklin was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 19, 2013, two

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