Saturday, December 15, 2007
The Prison Policy Initiative—with Demos as a partner—has submitted analysis to the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva of the discriminatory US Census approach to counting prisoners. PPI and Demos conclude that US Census practices violate international law.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 — The United States Census practice of counting […]
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The Prison Policy Initiative and State Senator Eric Schneiderman have brought together an in impressive coalition of organizations and legislators to call on the US Census Bureau to change its policy on counting prisoners—and to kick off a national advocacy campaign on the issue.
“Counting prisoners as residents of the prison districts where they do […]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
In a surprising turn of events, Texas Governor Rick Perry granted clemency to death row inmate Kenneth Foster. Foster’s death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. Until the reprieve came, things were not looking good. As the San Francisco Bay View put it in an email message a few days ago:
Five of the seven […]
Saturday, August 25, 2007
That’s Driving While Black. He has been in prison for ten years and is scheduled to be executed on August 30, 2007. He watches his daughter Nydes grow up from behind bullet proof glass.
Ten years ago, Kenneth was a young college student, a music lover, and recent father. Born in Austin, Texas, he spent […]
In the months immediately following Hurricane Katrina, when I first started blogging about Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) and the criminal justice system in New Orleans, I was overwhelmed by the some of the comments I received from people who had survived OPP or from people who were desperately trying to locate their friends and loved […]
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Who are the Angola 3? Here’s a brief overview:
The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola Known as “The Farm,” the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the largest prison in the United States. Around three-quarters of its inmates are African-American. According to the Academy-Award-nominated documentary The Farm, 85 percent of the inmates who are sent to […]
Saturday, October 14, 2006
I’m a little late on this, but since I’ve been following the issue for about a year and a half, I want to make note of an important development concerning how the Census Bureau counts people who are in prison.
Quick refersher: Many people are aware that the disproportionately Black and Latino population in US prisons […]
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
In Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah, if a prisoner will not voluntarily leave his cell when ordered to do so, officers may bring a trained attack dog to the cell front to terrify the prisoner into compliance. If the prisoner still refuses, the dog is let into the cell to bite the prisoner. […]
With the 2006 APA Convention about to start in New Orleans on Thursday, Psychologists for Social Responsibility has issued the following statement.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 8, 2006
Contact: Anne Anderson: (Cell) 202-262-0989
Psychologists for Social Responsibility Urges APA to Adopt Policy of “No Participation in National Security Interrogations”
PsySR urges the American Psychological Association to declare immediately, clearly, […]
After Mark Benjamin’s exposé last week of the American Psychological Association’s troubling collusion with US torture of detainees, the organization issued a point by point rebuttal of his Salon.com article. In turn Benjamin has written a follow-up piece which reveals embarrassing untruths in the APA’s rebuttals.
APA:
[Mark Benjamin’s] article opens by suggesting that the APA is […]
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And then shut down the American Psychological Association.
It turns out this little tangential ethical concern about medical participation in interrogations is at the very center of how the US has been […]
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Substantive challenges to Bush’s rampant abuses of executive power have become so rare that it was truly a shock to learn the […]
Just a coincidence? Maybe, except it’s at least two coincidences… Tell me what you think…
Yesterday on TalkLeft:
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014801.html
Chicago’s Abu Ghraib
Let’s not forget prisoner abuse begins at home. [emphasis added –BG]
It’s called Area 2. And for nearly two decades beginning in 1971, it was the epicenter for what has been described as the systematic torture of dozens […]
March 29, 2006
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When Hurricane Katrina struck six months ago, the mainstream media was shocked to discover the scope of poverty in New Orleans. And that’s about as deep as the coverage has gone.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Black Commentator’s Margaret Kimberly notes that Halliburton has won yet another multi-million dollar government contract—this one to build “temporary detention facilities” in case of an “immigration emergency.”
The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan […]
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