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Arkansas Law Discloses Legislators’ Business Ties to State

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Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom

by Marie Gottschalk

Throughout American history, politicians and public officials have exploited public anxieties about crime and disorder for political gain. The difference today is that these political strategies and public anxieties have come together in the perfect storm. They have radically transformed U.S.
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McCain Remarks Before the National Sheriffs' Association Annual Conference
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008; 11:23 AM

[*] MCCAIN: Thank you, Sheriff Webre, for the kind introduction, and thank you all very much.
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The Torture Election: Fighting for the Soul of the American Psychological Association By Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet Posted on April 23, 2008 Printed on ...

Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom by Marie Gottschalk Throughout American history, politicians and public officials have exploited public ...

Congress Must Act to Protect Young Detainees from Abuse by Marian Wright Edelman Posted May 19, 2008 In recent years, the Children's Defense ...

Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated by David M. Reutter Almost everyone with experience on the incarceration side of America?s criminal justice system ...

Head on a skewer: Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy ...

Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby ?Lock them up and throw away the key.? Like the rest of ...

Making the Bad Guy Pay: Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction by Kirsten D. Levingston1 "At some point, we have ...

This exclusive article was first published on Alternet, at: www.alternet.org/rights/84388 and www.alternet.org/rights/84491 Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime ...

Wave of reform There is now a chance to fix Maine?s broken corrections system, but only if the public speaks up By: LANCE ...

Turner v. Safley: high drama, enduring precedent By David L. Hudson Jr. First Amendment scholar 05.01.08 When one thinks of famous litigants or important First ...

Release of Medically Incapacitated Inmates Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis Will the Board of ...

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Summer of Discontent by John E. Dannenberg Underlying the purported societal goal of prisoner rehabilitation lurks the reality of what impedes it: systemic ...

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Sex Offenders Set Up Camp in Miami Florida: The Julia Tuttle Causeway Becomes a Colony. Politicians Pass the Buck. by Isaiah Thompson ...

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