Commentary

Started July, 2009


 

 

The Prison System

- Working -

 ( See Links Below )

Related Issues Resources Relative Links

 

 

"Private prisons are a symptom, a response by private capital to the 'opportunities' created by society's temper tantrum approach to the problem of criminality"

- Phil Smith
   from the Fall 1993 issue of Covert Action Quarterly

 

 

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

 

Lonnie J. Burris

Activist & Concerned Citizen

 

 

 

 

Related Issues:

 

 

Education
Big Brother

Human Rights

War In Iraq

War On Drugs

Ethics & Morality
Orthodox Religion

The Economy

Homeland Security
Psychopathy

Political Corruption

Corporate Corruption

Legislating Morality

 

 

 

Relevant Links:

 

National (USA)

40 Years of a Pointless, Tragic Drug War -- But as Feds Crack Down, Reformers Fight Back

 

Are We Moving Towards Reform? For the First Time in 40 Years, U.S. Prison Population Declines

 

The Shocking Way the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System

 

Privatization Nightmare: 5 Public Services that Should Never Be Handed Over to the Greedy Corporations

 

New Report Lifts Lid on Private Prison Industry

 

Private Prison Industry Grows Despite Critics

 

From Troy Davis to Occupy Wall Street: How the Prison System Destroys the American Dream

 

The Drug War: Jim Crow in the Age of Obama (Video)

 

21st Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor

 

The Largest Prison Strike In American History Goes Ignored By US Media

 

Pot Prohibition is the Cornerstone of a Police State

 

Are Drug Sentencing Reforms Working?

 

Missouri Judges Look at Prison Costs When Crafting Sentences

 

Privatized Prisons Insure Nation of Prisoners

 

For Profit Executions Possible in Arizona

 

Hey Progressives: Why Don't You Care About the "Drug War" Like You Care About Other Issues?

 

America's Schizoid Pot Culture -- 4 in 10 Have Smoked It, and Millions Are Still Getting Busted

 

Fighting for the Rights of Voters Behind Bars

 

On Top of Jail Time, Prisoners Now Face Fees and Surcharges

 

Death Row Lotto

 

Lethal Injustice: No New Trial for Death Row Prisoner Troy Davis

 

Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons

 

Global

 

Rape, Torture and Humiliation in Women's Prisons: A Global State of Crisis

 

 

 

For More Relevant Links...
Google "The Prison System"