Search Content
American Prisons and the Execution of Innocents Apr. 16, 2025
A week before Christmas in 2018, both Democratic and Republican senators went down to the Senate flo... Read More
Incarcerated Indentured Servants Fight Wildfires Jan. 14, 2025
Southern California is experiencing the worst winter wildfires in 40 years. Winter fires are unusual... Read More
Paying Iranian Terrorists Billions in Ransom Is Nothing To Brag About, Mr. President Sep. 22, 2023
The going rate for an American hostage these days is around $1.3 billion. That's what the Biden admi... Read More
America's Bizarro Take On Guantanamo: Punish the Victims, Reward the Criminals May. 05, 2023
A country that loudly and repeatedly expresses what it purports to be its principles, yet cavalierly... Read More
The 'Prison Groupie' Syndrome Aug. 06, 2022
Here's a word from the field of crime I'm betting you've never heard before: hybristophilia. It's pr... Read More
Clean Our Mess: Release Guantanamo Detainees in the US, Close the Camp Jan. 28, 2022
Parents teach their children: You make a mess, you clean it up. Twenty years ago, the United States ... Read More
No, It's Not Too Early to Criticize Joe Biden Feb. 05, 2021
Censorship in mainstream corporate American media outlets is subtle. It's not so much that they spin... Read More
Allowing Prisoners to Vote: Let's Think This Through May. 18, 2019
So democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to give all prisoners the right to vo... Read More
Stop Lapping Up Fake News about People in Prison Jan. 11, 2019
It started last weekend. USA Today reported that inmates in federal prisons enjoyed decadent holiday... Read More
Kids as Prisoners Dec. 20, 2018
A company in Florida has started selling ankle bracelets — the electric kind felons wear on pa... Read More
Obama's Anti-Terror Strategy: Release Gitmo Detainees Aug. 17, 2016
"I've been working for seven years now to get this thing closed," President Barack Obama said in a F... Read More
The Day Freedom Died in Cuba Mar. 23, 2016
In 1959, Fidel Castro and his communist henchmen put a bullet through the head of freedom. Proclaimi... Read More
Jerry Brown's Funky California Prison Blues Feb. 14, 2016
When he initially retired from the system in 2011, there were 173,000 inmates in the state's prisons... Read More
Second-Chance Leaders Sep. 24, 2015
We may not think of ourselves as a vindictive country, but consider this: To even get us back to the... Read More
All the World's a Stage -- Even San Quentin May. 31, 2015
Julius Caesar lay dead. The senators who took his life stood dumbstruck, faced with the foul deed th... Read More
War Hero or Deserter? Jun. 03, 2014
"We needed to get him out of there, essentially to save his life." So said Secretary of Defense Chu... Read More
Obama's Afghanistan Mess Jan. 03, 2014
Is President Obama sleeping well on his Hawaiian holiday? I can think of many families of American s... Read More
Do Prisoners Deserve Free Medical Treatment? Sep. 01, 2011
They are charged with breaking laws or victimizing fellow citizens. We respond by making sure they g... Read More
