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Woman Pleads Guilty to Killing 2-Year-Old Daughter
Society & Culture  (tags: crime, child, murdered, mother, prisons, women )

Lone
- 19 days ago - ksl.com
MANTI -- Ariel Hampton pleaded guilty to reduced charges of child abuse homicide and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to
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A Big Opening for Criminal Justice Reform: TAKE ACTION!
Society & Culture  (tags: Senators, Government, prisons, Prison Reforms, freedoms, crime, culture, ethics, government, humans, interesting, law, news, rights, politics, usa )

Kat
- 226 days ago - colorofchange.org
Politicians rarely speak honestly about the realities of our broken criminal justice system, for fear of appearing "soft on crime." But Senator Jim Webb from Virginia has just proposed a new law that will examine our criminal justice system from top to...
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Increase in Inmates Opens Door to Private Prisons
Society & Culture  (tags: prison, prisons, america, american, usa, over-crowded, private prison, government, revenue, californiarights, law, freedoms, ethics, family, children, activists, americans, government, society )

TW
- 783 days ago - latimes.com
The nation's big private prison companies like it too. Having long lusted after a share of California's 173,000-inmate population, they now foresee a steady stream of business.
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Don't Bar Prison Inspiration
Society & Culture  (tags: reform, prisons, MDOC, timothysouders, children, activists, corruption, crime, culture, education, ethics, family, freedoms, GoodNews, government, interesting, media, politics, religion, world )

Theresa
- 808 days ago - freep.com
It makes little sense. MDOC has made much of its Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative to reduce crime and recidivism by better preparing offenders for life after prison. What better way to do that than to offer up the example, and counsel, of an ex-inmate who ...
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Jailing Nation: How Did Our Prison System Become Such a Nightmare?
Society & Culture  (tags: ethics, prisons, laws, racism, corruption )

Danielle
- 828 days ago - alternet.org
With five percent of the world's population, the U.S. has close to a quarter of the world's prisoners. How did the American criminal justice system go so wrong?
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Surviving Prison Rape -One Man's Journey From Brutality to Activism
Society & Culture  (tags: prisons, males, rape, healing, book, protection )

Cheryl Su
- 834 days ago - rabble.ca
T.J. Parsell incarcerated in Michigan in 1978, but chose to write about the experience a quarter-century later, after witnessing a group of young store clerks laughing about a prison-rape scene screening at a New York video store. Fish ( term new inmate
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