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Politics of Punishment

Since we are focused on Colorado’s criminal justice system, it’s worth noting that in November, state residents will vote on a ballot measure called Proposition 102. According to an editorial in the Denver Post, the proposition “is worded in such a way that voters might be led to believe they are supporting increased public safety by voting […]

Politics of Punishment

The Colorado Files: Ballot Measure Would Keep Poor Defendants in Jail

Scott Sisters Case Wins National Attention

All-American Prison Torture

Obama and Bureau of Prisons Lowball Supermax Costs

How to Create Madness in Prison

A Chance at Freedom for the Scott Sisters?

“Outsourcing Punishment” and the Privatization of Justice

Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

Voices from Solitary: Supermaxed Out in Colorado

“Never in the Civilised World Have So Many Been Locked Up for So Little”

Prison Heat: Hunger Strike Highlights Summer’s Deadly Toll on U.S. Inmates

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Alaska Teen Spends 17-Months in Pre-Trial Solitary Confinement

Two for One: Guantanamo Won’t Close, But Illinois Supermax Will Open

Voices from Solitary: “What Prisoners Have…”

Voices from Solitary: Oscar Wilde’s Cry from the Depths

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement: Our Generation of Americans “Has Countenanced Legalized Torture”

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement