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Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration.   |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Motherless children The drug war has stamped an entire class of parents as permanently unfit... |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
Wired
October 2009
Vince Beiser |
Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime, but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea: Stop treating lawbreakers like criminals. |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
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... |
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 15, 2002
Dimitra Kessenides |
"The Execution of Wanda Jean" Director Liz Garbus talks about the death penalty and her documentary on a woman who was executed for murder... |
ifeminists
August 4, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
In Defense of 'Deadbeat' Dads It is time for the prison release of impoverished deadbeat dads to become official policy in every corner of North America. |
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. |
| AskMen.com |
Infinite Jail Terms For Sex Crimes? The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms. |
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... |
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? |
ifeminists
August 19, 2003
Jennifer Roback Morse |
Parents or Prisons For some people, prisons are a substitute for parents. This apparent overstatement is shorthand for two more precise points. |
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. |
ifeminists
September 24, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
America's debtor prisons for men While imprisonment for debt was eliminated in this country in the 19th century, it has re-emerged under a new name: contempt of court. |
Salon.com
October 2, 2000
Arianna Huffington |
Disenfranchised Young black men get singled out among drug offenders for the harshest punishment, then they lose their right to vote. With laws like this, who needs Jim Crow? |
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. |
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. |
Reason
July 2002
Cathy Young |
License to Kill Men and women, crime and punishment. |
Salon.com
July 26, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Busting the prison-industrial complex After years of tougher sentencing laws and increased incarceration of juveniles, the tide in California is beginning to turn... |
Salon.com
October 30, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
The drug war's littlest victims Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime. |
Salon.com
July 16, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
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
January 24, 2002
Pegi Taylor |
Out of the frying pan, into group therapy A new Supreme Court ruling could increase the number of former sex offenders released into the community. For these ex-cons, the end of detention marks the beginning of intense, and possibly endless, therapy... |
Reason
August 2003
Jesse Walker |
Rape Behind Bars A left/right coalition has assembled behind H.R. 1707, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003. The bill would conduct more complete research on the problem and would "provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape." The Justice Dept. opposes it. |
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... |
Fast Company
March 2015
Baratunde Thurston |
It's Time for Tech to Embrace Prison Reform What if the resourcefulness and hustle currently trapped behind bars could flood back into a nation that needs it? |
Salon.com
August 10, 2000
Arianna Huffington |
No more lies Americans see clearly that the war on drugs isn't working. Now some of our leaders are starting to open their eyes. |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Damien Cave |
Jailhouse Net Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars. |
Reason
May 2007
Cathy Young |
Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it? |
Reason
May 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Free Will Helping drug war victims... |
Reason
February 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Dangerous Assumption Sex offender registration: One of the main rationales for singling out sex offenders is the assumption that they are especially likely to commit new crimes. That belief, although widely held, seems to have little basis in fact. |
AskMen.com
Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
Reason
July 2007
Jeff Taylor |
Little Criminals Locking up bad kids with bad adults has long been recognized as counterproductive. Yet a recent report from the Justice Policy Institute reveals that many states simply do not have enough juvenile detention slots for young offenders, even those who commit nonviolent crimes. |
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. |
Adventure
Dec 2003/Jan 2004
Shan-san Wu |
The Atkins Zone The Houdini of fast escapes from international prisons advises on how to get out--and stay out--of jail while traveling abroad. Plus, some good reasons to avoid getting slammed in these six notorious tourist traps. |
Real Travel Adventures
January 2008
Antonio Graceffo |
Philippines Progressive Rehabilitation Program A penal colony in the Philippines may serve as an innovative model for prisoner reform. |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Barry Yeoman |
Steel Town Lockdown Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Vince Beiser |
Prisoners Run Gangs, Plan Escapes, and Even Order Hits With Smuggled Cellphones Prisoners are using cell phones to make calls, send text messages, and email to taunt their victims, intimidate witnesses, run gangs, and organize escapes. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Gary S. Becker |
How to Level the Playing Field for Young Black Men Improved schools are crucial. But until the U.S. can bring itself to decriminalize drugs, too many black sons will have no dad at home. |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
How To: Survive Jail Entering prison is not like your first day at school -- it's worse. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Drug war politics The presidential candidates have not widely touted their plans to deal with drug abuse. Is it because of their own suspect histories? |
Reason
February 2005
Matt Welch |
Three Strikes, Out? Since felonies in California include shoplifting and minor drug possession, cases of disproportionate punishment have become commonplace since the three-strikes law was passed. |
Inc.
January 2009
Mike Hofman |
Some Good Earners Preparing prison inmates to start businesses upon their release. |
InternetNews
October 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
Online Smut Peddler Takes Guilty Plea The FBI says a Washington, D.C., man had 11,000 images of child pornography for Internet distribution. |
ifeminists
July 25, 2007
Darrin Albert |
Is the System too Easy on Women or is the System too Hard on Men? Is there a punishment-gap in which the legal system is too easy on women or too hard on men? |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2011
Dowdell et al. |
Original Research: Online Social Networking Patterns Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Sexual Offenders The use of online social networks like Facebook continues to increase rapidly among all age groups and segments of our society, presenting new opportunities for the exchange of sexual information as well as unsafe encounters. |
ifeminists
July 3, 2007
Fima Fimovitch |
Simple Math and Legal System Current child porn laws are very dangerous, and impact on everything. They represent a serious threat to the nation's economy. |
