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April 29, 2020
April 29, 2020
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How can we continue to allow overcrowded jail and prison cells? How did we allow the criminal justice system to increase prison terms so long that “once in, never out”?
Perhaps our culture embraced it and taught us from an early age, taught us through children’s stories and poems and songs…
November 5, 2017
November 5, 2017
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Hole in my Life, by Jack Gantos (Square Fish 2002) Every reader will love Jack Gantos’ true story of totally messing up his young life (and […]
April 14, 2017
April 14, 2017
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Terri LeClercq will speak at the 7th international conference addressing Human Rights and Prison Reform. She will offer alternative but effective means of educating inmates about their prison rights.
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
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DOJ to investigate unconstitutional conditions in Alabama prison system.
September 20, 2016
September 20, 2016
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Kenneth E. Hartman was a street punk when he murdered Mr. Fellowes, and received Life Without Parole. His 2009 memoir, Mother California, leads readers from his […]
June 29, 2016
June 29, 2016
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Florida legislator discovers food illegally withheld as punishment. State Rep. David Richardson, a Democrat from Miami Beach, exposed the practice and the guard has been temporarily moved.
January 8, 2015
January 8, 2015
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Texas is special. The relationship between its prosecutors and political pressure and money is also special. Recently Appleseed uncovered yet another illegal string connecting them all: payday lenders report to the prosecutors and tell debtors that if they don't pay up, they face jail time. That's a lie. Debt is a civil issue, not criminal. The real criminals here are the payday lenders--and the prosecutors who go along with the illegal coercion.
December 19, 2014
December 19, 2014
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California prisons kill 3 more.