Overcrowded, underfunded, rife with abuse and filled with nonviolent offenders — it doesn’t get much worse than U.S. prisons.
By almost every measure, the American prison system is broken. For a nation that claims one in every 20 human beings on Earth, it also claims one in every four prisoners. Approximately one in every 107 American adults is currently behind bars, producing both a rate of
A former Indiana governor’s attack on the historian who wrote A People’s History of the United States is disturbing — and shameful.
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, one of the country’s most widely read history books, died on January 27, 2010. Shortly after, then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels got on his computer and fired off an email to the state’s top education
A closer and deeper look is the historical, legal and social connections shows the continuance of such policies is a true travesty of justice.
Much has been said about the prison-industrial complex and the failed “war on drugs.” What merits a closer and deeper look is the historical, legal and social connections that makes the continuance of such policies a true travesty of justice.
Don’t know much about historyOver the last 40
In Greeley, Colo., two billboards have triggered a debate about what it means to be an American for a specific ethnic group. Two black-and-white roadside billboards -- featuring three men dressed in traditional Great Plains Native American dress -- bearing the caption, “Turn in your arms/ The government will take care of you,” were
Katie Rucke
Rape isn’t a new phenomenon, but posting photos and videos of rape on social media sites for all to see is changing the rape conversation and how survivors of rape recover from the trauma.
In During the past year, there have been multiple high-profile rape cases across the U.S. and the world, with notable
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Edward Rhymes
“Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance. Persecution of stone-throwers, including 8-year-old children, is an inseparable part —
