Founded 1983: Liberal Mindset; Conservative Morality

March 29, 2011January 21, 2013

How to Create a Carceral Nation with a Private Prison System

It’s discouraging to see the steady progression of the prison population in America. Instead of dealing with social issues, we prefer to put people behind bars for smaller and smaller offenses in a blighted attempt to keep the peace. We take our national cue from Obama who, too frightened to proactively move, leaves Guantanamo an open and seeping sore on our national visage.

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March 5, 2009January 21, 2013

Shame in One in Thirty-One

We hit a new low in the national shame of the United States this week. One in every 31 American citizens is doing time or is on parole. The incarceration rate doubled in 25 years.

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March 2, 2009

The Illusion of Community Sentences

The UK have always been forward thinking and proactive when it comes to comforting the human condition in medicine and trying to alleviate the suffering in the halls of incarceration. It must have been difficult to accept the notion that — over the last four years as “Community Sentences” rose as a diversionary tactic to reduce the prison population — the incarceration rate rose just as well.