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President Volodmyr Zelenskyy: The Trump Peace Plan
“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that Ukraine has to confront the possibility of losing its dignity or risking the loss of a key partner as it figures out how to respond to a U.S. peace proposal to end Russia-Ukraine conflict. (Produced by Elaine Carroll).” Source:Associated Press with a look at President Volodmyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. […]
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Tag Archives: American Prisons
The Economist: America’s Elderly Prisoner Boom
Source:The New Democrat A couple of things hit me when I watched this video. One, the fact that America at least at the state level, has moved away from prison industries in too many cases and instead has turned prison … Continue reading
Posted in The Economist, The New Democrat
Tagged 2015, America, America's Elderly Prison Boom, American Prisons, Elderly Inmates, Elderly Prisoners, Old Age Homes, Prison Reform, Prison Rehabilitation, Retirement Homes, Senior Citizens, Senior Health Care, The Economist, United States
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The Economist: ‘Jailhouse Nation’
Source:The New Democrat “WITH less than 5% of the world’s population, the United States holds roughly a quarter of its prisoners: more than 2.3m people, including 1.6m in state and federal prisons and over 700,000 in local jails and immigration … Continue reading
The Washington Post: Christopher Ingraham- The Orwellian Deception of Chuck Grassley’s Leniency Industrial Complex
Source:The New Democrat Anyone who calls them self a Conservative and especially a fiscal Conservative, but who supports the American Prison Industrial Complex and our current criminal justice system, I at the very least would question how fiscally conservative are … Continue reading
Posted in The New Democrat, The Washington Post
Tagged 114th Congress, 2015, American Prisons, Christopher Ingraham, Chuck Grassley, Criminal Justice Reform, Dick Durbin, Iowa, Mike Lee, Pat Leahy, Prison Industrial Complex, Rand Paul, Senate Republicans, Sheldon Whitehouse, Smarter Sentencing Act, Ted Cruz, U.S. Congress, U.S. Government, U.S. Senate, Washington, Washington DC
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Kristen Cherye: America’s Hardest Prisons- National Geographic Documentary
Source:The New Democrat This is what happens when you house the worst of the worst together. You have these violent criminal inmates who see their time in prison as nothing, but survival. And making their lives as comfortable as … Continue reading
Slate Magazine: Helen Vera: ‘Against Solitary Confinement: States Finding it Impractical as well as Immoral’
Source:The New Democrat The current use of the process of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons is deplorable. There are no guidelines relating the length of confinement to severity of offense. The process is used at the discretion of onsite officials. … Continue reading
University of Chicago: ‘George E. Kent Lecture: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow’
Source:University of Chicago presenting author Michelle Alexander Source:The New Democrat “Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime and Punishment, The New Democrat
Tagged 2013, African-American Community, African-Americans, America, American Corrections System, American Prison System, American Prisons, Chicago, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice System, George E. Kent Lecture, Illinois, Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, Prison Reform, The New Jim Crow, United States, University of Chicago
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