Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Money to burn

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In its never-ending quest to make prisons as inhospitable as it can (just because it can), the State of Texas spent $7 million fighting a ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Prison inmates sue Texas over conditions

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I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who don't give two damns whether or not the state provides air conditioning for its inm...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

A broken record

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On the way to the municipal courthouse during the lunch hour yesterday I happened upon a discussion on the local public affairs show Houston...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

California sterilizes dozen of female inmates

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Over a five-year period, 148 female inmates in California's state prison system underwent sterilization procedures that had not been app...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

At least it's not a needle

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Police arrest suspect. Police take suspect to jail. Police take suspect's fingerprints when he is booked in for identification purposes....
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

On Johnny Cash and prison reform

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I am linking to an article on the BBC News website about Johnny Cash and prison reform . Mr. Cash took up the cause of prisoners during the ...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Caged up like animals

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Never underestimate the ability of a politician to take an idea and run it so far into the ground that the end result isn't even recogni...
Friday, December 9, 2011

On secret prisons and shredding the Constitution

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It would appear that the CIA has been operating a secret prison in Bucharest since the days of the Shrub administration. The prison was u...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Avoiding the real problem in the Texas prison system

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Ignoring the problem won't make it go away

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Let's build more prisons and fill 'em up with our society's undesirables. That ought to make the world a better place, don't...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Walking a mile in another man's shoes

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Disgraced former federal judge and convicted felon Samuel Kent wants out of prison because of the humiliation, torture and horrors of the p...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Georgia on my mind

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One in thirteen people behind bars, on probation or on parole. One in seventy people behind bars. One billion dollars spent every year to ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009

An inside job?

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State law enforcement officials are still searching for convicted child molester Arcade Comeaux, Jr., who escaped from custody while being t...