Tag Archives: American Prisons

The Economist: America’s Elderly Prisoner Boom

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Erik Schneider

Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat Plus 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 … Continue reading →

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The Economist: ‘Jailhouse Nation’

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Erik Schneider

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 →

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The Washington Post: WonkBook- Christopher Ingraham- The Orwellian Deception of Chuck Grassley’s Leniency Industrial Complex

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Erik Schneider

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat Plus 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 … Continue reading →

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Kristen Cherye: America’s Hardest Prisons- National Geographic Documentary

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Erik Schneider

  Source: This piece was originally posted at 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 … Continue reading →

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Slate: Opinion- Helen Vera- Against Solitary Confinement: States Finding it Impractical as well as Immoral

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source: This piece was originally posted at 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 … Continue reading →

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University of Chicago: George E. Kent Lecture- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat I do not agree with everything that Professor Michelle Alexander says about the American prison system. And the broader race relations in America, but I agree with her broader premise that … Continue reading →

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