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Salon.com August 5, 2002 Michelle Goldberg |
Noelle Bush gets rehab, the poor and black get hard time Fed up with draconian drug penalties, a coalition led by angry mothers is threatening to overturn some of the country's harshest laws. |
BusinessWeek June 16, 2010 Palmeri & Marois |
The Money That Fueled California's Election Revolt Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his allies hope their Proposition 14 victory will help end California's political gridlock. |
Reason February 2009 Matt Welch |
Schwarzenegger's Failure If the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Anthony York |
Gray turns green -- with cash Building more prisons, doling out pork and refusing to rethink the death penalty, California Gov. Gray Davis is confounding friends and enemies with his relentless pursuit of the middle. |
Reason March 2007 Radley Balko |
Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Relaxes Screening Requirements For California Drivers The company is intentionally easing up on its screening requirements, to give nonviolent criminals a chance to become Uber drivers. |
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Ronald Grover |
Choose Your Weapon, Arnold Attacking California's deficit could mean cutting back on universities, courts, and police. |
Salon.com March 29, 2001 Maria Russo |
Psycho factories Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons... |
ifeminists September 16, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
InternetNews July 15, 2004 Roy Mark |
Identity Theft Law Hits Back at 'Phishers' The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, signed into law by President Bush, mandates federal prison terms for using a false identity in the commission of a felony. |
Salon.com October 25, 2000 Nell Bernstein |
Motherless children The drug war has stamped an entire class of parents as permanently unfit... |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
A New Governor Won't Fix What Ails California The recall shows that the mixture of money politics and direct-democracy provisions has made the state ungovernable. |
Salon.com February 14, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Another pardon that stinks Clinton pardoned a well-connected cocaine kingpin -- while letting countless low-level, mostly black and Latino, dealers rot in prison... |
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 Grover & Palmeri |
Arnold Is Hitting His Marks The Sacramento governor has plugged budget holes. But is he pushing the problems into the future? |
Salon.com October 13, 2000 Jake Tapper |
Gore camp accuses Bush of "exaggeration" Trying to turn the tables on the GOP candidate, Gore's campaign chief seizes upon a Bush debate misstatement. |
Salon.com August 29, 2000 Bruce Shapiro |
Prison politics Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has the largest -- and fastest growing -- incarcerated population in America. |
Salon.com July 20, 2000 Nell Bernstein |
Swept away Thousands of women, often guilty of little more than lousy judgment, are serving long prison sentences as drug "conspirators." |
Salon.com March 29, 2001 Damien Cave |
The business of law and order The author of "Going up the River" says that the booming private-prison industry is due for a bust... |
Salon.com July 31, 2000 Bruce Shapiro |
Hard time for soft crimes Two million Americans are locked up, most for nonviolent drug offenses. Some maverick Republicans -- yes, Republicans -- are trying to change that. |
Reason July 2002 Cathy Young |
License to Kill Men and women, crime and punishment. |
InternetNews February 6, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Silicon Valley Gives the Governator the Business The technology elite met with the California governor behind closed doors to tell him that their business climate feels like North Dakota. |
Wired September 2004 Stewart & Thompson |
The New American Idol The New American Idol, Arnold Schwarzenegger... 6 Ways to Reboot the Electoral System... |
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
Salon.com June 2, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Three strikes and she's out? Jenna Bush may be facing not only her father's wrath, but a jail sentence under a zero-tolerance law he signed... |
Salon.com January 12, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Hardest hit by the prison craze Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society. |
Salon.com January 27, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
Gov. Davis and the failure of power California's energy crisis is another lesson in the need for campaign finance reform... |
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
Who Was That Masked Man? MSU professor talks about the problem of fighting ID theft and the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act. |