Fathers and Sons
Joseph H. Cooper : South Africa
A teacher discovers that sixty years after its publication, Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country still stirs deep emotions about fathers and errant sons.
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Can the Golden State Warriors Save Oakland?
Dave Zirin : Sports
The Warriors will miss this year's NBA playoffs, but they can still be winners by reaching out to at-risk youth in Oakland.
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Rehabilitation, Resurrected
David Cole
This year nearly 700,000 inmates in US prisons will be granted their freedom. And in a rare act of bipartisanship, a new law provides millions to rehabilitate them.
2007
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Locked Up in Limbo
In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.
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Locked Up in New Orleans
Robin Templeton : Police & Law Enforcement
In response to a crime wave, police are imprisoning a record number of nonviolent offenders.
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Pardon Whom?
Katha Pollitt : George W. Bush
Dear George Bush: Don't stop with Scooter Libby. Why not go all the way and pardon everyone unfairly held behind bars?
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The Sounds of Silence
Walter Mosley : Electoral Reform
Voting is a privilege and a responsibility that every American bears. Allowing prisoners to vote will keep us honest.
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Incarceration Nation
America now leads the world in the number of people behind bars. But hope is emerging that state governments and the courts will seek to hold back the hand of the carceral state.
2006
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Generation Lockdown
California's juvenile justice system is broken everywhere you look. An ambitious plan for reform could bring much-needed improvements, but does it go far enough?
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'They Deserve It'
Prison rape is not a dirty joke; it's one of the most frequent and widespread human rights abuses in America.
2005
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Left to Die
If a society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners, we are in deeper trouble in New Orleans than we realize. The biggest prison crisis since Attica is now unfolding in the devastated city, with inmates jammed into inadequate facilities, often abused and unrepresented by attorneys or advocates.
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Two Prisoners Named Williams
Dan Berger : Anti-Death Penalty Movement
The lives and deaths of two prisoners intersected this week--Stanley Tookie Williams and Richard Williams, flawed men whose political perspectives and pursuit of personal redemption were inspired by a radical social consciousness.
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Seeds of Abu Ghraib
Americans wondered how Army Specialist Charles Graner could torture detainees in the gruesome Abu Ghraib scandal. In war, people do things that would otherwise be unthinkable. But this former corrections officer with a record of spousal abuse has always been at war.
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Ban Torture or Protect Torturers?
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Constitutional Questions
A showdown looms in Congress this week over two competing measures involving bedrock human and legal rights: John McCain's legislation to ban all forms of torture and Lindsey Graham's proposal to strip federal courts of the power to hear habeas corpus appeals by terror suspects.
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The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
As the clock ticks down to former gang leader Stanley Tookie Williiams's scheduled execution on December 13, football great Jim Brown is helping lead the fight to convince Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency.
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Toxic Recycling
Elizabeth Grossman : Pollution
Recycling electronics using US prison labor is a booming business, with a captive workforce paid pennies per hour for dangerous work that is largely unregulated. The human and environmental consequences of negligent handling and disposal of electronic waste are considerable.
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The Theater of Cruelty
Amitav Ghosh : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
The abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historic prison practices.
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Time to End Recidivism
What about the 178 women who will be released from US prisons every day of the year?
2004
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Incarceration, Inc.
Private prisons thrive on cheap labor and the hunger of job-starved towns.
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Hawks Eating Crow
Eric Alterman : Conservatives & The American Right
The Bush Administration has not made it easy on its supporters.
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Orders to Torture
The evidence emerging from Abu Ghraib reveals high crimes and misdemeanors in the precise sense of the Constitution's impeachment clause.
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Conditions of Atrocity
Robert Jay Lifton : Vietnam War
The crimes at Abu Ghraib are a direct expression of the kind of war we are waging in Iraq.
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Is Koppel a Commie?
Eric Alterman : Corporate Media & Consolidation
Even by the debased standards of Bush-era punditocracy discourse, Sinclair stands out as an impressively dumbed-down operation.
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Al Jazeera Goes to Jail
Christian Parenti : Journalists & Journalism
In Iraq's media war, US troops are imprisoning and abusing Arab journalists.
2003
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Prison Reform Talking Points
The US prison system is exacting an increasingly heavy toll, both financial and human.
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The Last Disenfranchised Class
Rebecca Perl : Civil Rights & Liberties
Nearly 5 million Americans can't vote because of felony convictions.
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The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke
Sasha Abramsky : Police & Law Enforcement
A budget crisis and a prison boom make the states a vanguard for drug reform.
2001
This week: Christian Parenti on the Chinese middle class and the impact of the Olympics. Plus: Esther Kaplan and Eric Foner on the Democratic Party's unexpected struggle for the blue collar vote. (13mb mp3)
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