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A bill that will allow Louisiana residents to carry a concealed firearm without a permit is headed to the desk of Gov. Jeff Landry. The bill would also remove current requirements for new gun owners ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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The concept of prisons as a way of dealing with people who don’t adhere to society’s norms of behavior has probably been around since of the origins of urban, agricultural civilizations. In general, a prison is a place of long-term confinement while a...
by Ojibwa
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 11:15 AM PST
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No not that one. Britain has had its own escaped prisoner story this week, complete with increased security measures at the main airports. Daniel Khalife was on remand in Wandsworth Prison in SW London awaiting trial on terrorism offences and for...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 06:01 PM PDT
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“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Tens of thousands of young people are incarcerated in youth prisons across the country; thousands more are also locked up in adult prisons and jails....
by Bill Berkowitz
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 06:30 AM PDT
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By Mike Males California Gov. Gavin Newsom and justice reformers deserve praise for taking on the hard politics necessary to finally close the state’s scandal-ridden, violent, lawsuit-papered Division of Juvenile Justice (formerly California Youth...
by mmales
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 10:59 AM PDT
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Author Joshua Bloch never thought any of his books would be banned anywhere. Not even Florida schools. And yet in Ohio prisons, his book Effective Java is verboten. The inmates are not allowed to read that nor any other book about computer programming...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Violent crime in Australia is gradually decreasing. This is good. Except among Indigenous people. Rates of imprisonment Australia-wide are declining, which is also gratifying. But the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people incarcerated...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 09:53 AM PST
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Up till now the "war on drugs" has been a huge failure. It has incarcerated millions of people. Corrupted entire societies. Destroyed millions of lives. Cost many billions -- maybe even trillions -- of dollars. This essay argues that properly funded...
by boblite
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on Fri Dec 02, 2022 at 03:00 PM PST
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An unexpected Google Alert arrived yesterday morning giving notice that the Washington Examiner posted an opinion responding to a recent essay published in the NY Times. The alert came to me because the Times’ essay was written by my son, Patrick, who...
by CrossroadsAgent
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on Wed Nov 23, 2022 at 06:57 AM PST
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Building on the foundation of previous strikes and organized movements, people on the inside of Alabama prisons are now regrouping to continue the fight for abolition. by Jared Ware This article ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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Prison copays have hidden costs that ultimately harm incarcerated people’s health. by Cecille Joan Avila This article was originally published at Prism. CW: Mentions of death by suicide, trauma from incarceration, and medical neglect. When Ronald...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Wed Nov 02, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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This article was originally published at Prism
When MCI-Framingham (MCI-F), the sole women’s prison in Massachusetts and the oldest operating women’s prison in the country, was established in ...
by Tamar Sarai Davis
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on Tue Oct 18, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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Fox News’ Jesse Watters is the intellectual equivalent of playing a game of Scrabble with a single upside-down tile. He’s the somehow lower-brow alternative to people who think Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity talk with too many word-sounding words. On...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 10:57 AM PDT
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I just saw an article on my news feed about a community in California suing the state to keep a state prison open because they needed the federal funds having the prisoners counted as part of their population brought in. This reminded me of something I...
by DBowman
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on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 07:47 AM PDT
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A Nebraska teenager and her mother are being criminally charged over the teen’s abortion , after Facebook provided law enforcement with her private messages. The fall of Roe not only brings back ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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by Meredyth L. Yoon and Azadeh Shahshahani
This article was originally published at Prism .
Neal, a Jamaican citizen who owned and operated a yacht servicing company for 25 years in South ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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by Sakshi Udavant
This article was originally published at Prism .
After the pandemic upended the economy, fears of a recession rippled across the country.
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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This week’s WOW host had something come up, and I’m not sure if she’ll be able to get a diary up later, so here are the story links contributed by WOW members this week. Thanks to elenacarlena,
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
42 comments
on Sat Jul 30, 2022 at 06:55 PM PDT
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Think of it as Monopoly, but more sinister: You go to jail. You don’t pass go. Your fellow players circle the board, accumulate capital. You hope for your lucky break, for the arbitrary roll of ...
by sabrinaslipchenko
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on Tue Jun 14, 2022 at 07:29 AM PDT
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Sen. Lindsey Graham took time away from stuffing his face with free food at Mar-a-Lago to parrot the NRA, GOP, and Donald Trump’s position that the best way to protect schools from gun violence is to turn them into military prisons. Trump’s stance...
by Walter Einenkel
145 comments
on Fri Jun 03, 2022 at 02:15 PM PDT
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