Monthly Archives: April 2009

Economist: Too Many Americans Are Behind Bars

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The conversation about incarceration is slowly changing: The Economist’s not-exactly-progressive columnist Lexington recently slammed the United States for a prison system that involves 1 in 31 adults and targets people of color. It’s not every day that a major international publication calls out the U.S. for its tendency… Read more

Shoveling Water: War on Drugs, War on People

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The way the U.S. has fought its “War on Drugs,” much like its “War on Terror”, has severely damaged our credibility as a promoter of human rights across the United States and around the world. The U.S. has sent billions in counter-narcotics aid to support ineffective and inhumane policies,… Read more

For Youth and Adults, Solitary Is Torture

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In “Hellhole,” published in the March 30 issue of The New Yorker, Atul Gawande condemns the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons as a form of torture. If solitary confinement is torturous to adults, imagine the impact of prolonged isolation on young people whose brains are… Read more

With Stimulus Passed, What Now?

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This is a guest post by Jerome Ringo, the President of the National Apollo Alliance, one of our key allies in the movement for green-collar jobs.
Apollo Alliance Answers $789 billion Question Today’s news is filled with images of an economy in crisis —… Read more