Search Content
San Quentin Prison and School Choice May. 30, 2023
When I was a boy, I spent some time inside San Quentin State Prison and got to know a few of the inm... Read More
San Quentin Prison and School Choice May. 24, 2023
When I was a boy, I spent some time inside San Quentin State Prison and got to know a few of the inm... 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
Getting Through to Kids About Crime Must Start by Getting Through to Lawmakers About Guns May. 01, 2023
The case of Marcus "Mojo" Ursery, 17, is the St. Louis conundrum in a nutshell. The city's exploding... Read More
Yesterday's Prisons Are Today's Destinations Jan. 21, 2023
By Victor Block People entering the red-turreted building with barred windows pass by members of a c... Read More
'Real' Journalists Recognize That Prosecuting Julian Assange Poses a Grave Threat to Freedom of the Press: The Justice Department's Discretion Is the Only Thing That Protects Them From a Similar Fate Nov. 30, 2022
"Publishing is not a crime," the editors and publishers of The New York Times and four leading Europ... 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
Making the Killers Pay Jul. 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — Have you been following the massacres in America? It would be difficult to miss t... Read More
Will This Ever Pay Off? Jul. 06, 2022
DR. WALLACE: Does being a well-behaved, disciplined person truly pay off in the long run? I'm 23 yea... Read More
Forever Prisoners Jun. 30, 2022
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political w... Read More
Allowing Prisoners to Vote: Let's Think This Through Jun. 11, 2022
In 2019, then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said he wanted to give all prisoners the ri... Read More
The Civilizational Suicide of 'Criminal Justice Reform' Apr. 15, 2022
The long and disturbing rap sheet of Frank James, the black nationalist New York City subway shooter... Read More
Who Says Democrats are Soft on Crime? Mar. 24, 2022
Frank Abrokwa is the repeat offender who, to the shock of many, was released after smearing his own ... Read More
The Move to Find the Innocent People in Prison Feb. 26, 2022
Among the most powerful people in the justice system are prosecutors and the judges to whom they pre... Read More
Arrested? How Making Bail Determines Your Experience With Our Justice System Feb. 18, 2022
I was 19 years old when a car turned left in front of me without looking and I plowed into it. First... Read More
Our Justice System Isn't Fair Jan. 29, 2022
We in America have lost faith. Not only is there a decline of religious faith in the United States; ... 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
#FreeMartyG: Exposing America's Secret Prisons Jan. 25, 2022
Marty Gottesfeld, 37, is an American political prisoner. There's just no other way to describe the s... Read More
Would an Independent Commission Solve the Clemency Backlog? A New Bill Would Transfer the Review of Petitions from the Justice Department to a Presidentially Appointed Board Dec. 15, 2021
When Jimmy Carter became president in 1977, fewer than 500 clemency petitions were pending at the Ju... Read More
Prisons Share Blame for Cellphones in the Cellblock Dec. 07, 2021
Guards found 26 cellphones and chargers stashed inside five basketballs tossed over a barbed-wire fe... Read More
