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Capital Punishment Still Serves Its Purpose. Don't Abolish It. Nov. 19, 2021
Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the ... Read More
Can Americans Exercise Religion in an Execution Chamber? Nov. 10, 2021
Dustin Honken was convicted of murdering five people, including two children, and was sentenced to d... Read More
Let's Think About a Different Kind of Prison System Oct. 30, 2021
Show of hands: How many readers believe that the U.S. prison system truly works to rehabilitate conv... Read More
Controlling Husband Is Cutting Off My Friends Oct. 06, 2021
Dear Annie: I'm currently in recovery. I have had two years of being clean and sober, after 13 long,... Read More
To Honor a Killer's Last Request -- Or Not? Sep. 18, 2021
A medium-rare rib-eye steak, a baked potato with butter and sour cream, an iceberg lettuce salad, ga... Read More
Blagojevich Is Free. That Doesn't Mean He Should Ever Be on a Ballot Again. Aug. 11, 2021
Next to the word "corruption" in the dictionary should be a photo of Rod Blagojevich. The former Ill... Read More
The Media's 'Spectacular' Stand Against Prisons Aug. 06, 2021
The "mainstream media" love to pretend that they represent the sensible middle ground of the ideolog... Read More
I Won't Ever Visit My Father in Prison May. 06, 2021
DR. WALLACE: This is a hard letter to write to you. My father abused me and was sent to prison for i... Read More
Biden Hedges on His Promise to Free Pot Prisoners: The President Still Has Not Caught Up With Most Americans on Marijuana Policy May. 05, 2021
Just before he left office, Donald Trump freed more than a dozen federal prisoners who had received ... Read More
Classic Ann Landers Apr. 04, 2021
Editor's Note: Hundreds of Ann Landers' loyal readers have requested that newspapers continue to pub... Read More
Society Pays a High Price When Prosecutors Fail to Punish Crime Apr. 01, 2021
Imagine a society where prostitutes could solicit johns for sex just yards from police officers who ... Read More
Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Pretends Prisoners Are Patients: The Practice Evades Constitutional Constraints by Casting Punishment and Preventive Detention As Treatment Feb. 10, 2021
"It was my understanding that I was to do the treatment, then be released," says Mike Whipple, who r... Read More
No Social Security in Prison Feb. 03, 2021
I was recently going through some old family photo albums with my grandkids. One album covered the r... Read More
Free Mitch Rutledge Dec. 29, 2020
Nearly everyone has seen the classic movie "The Shawshank Redemption." Well, it turns out there is a... Read More
The Pandemic's Hidden Victims Dec. 19, 2020
No two ways about it. This has been a lousy year. In so many ways, our lives have been upended and, ... Read More
Bail Reform Has Not Unleashed Violent Crime Nov. 22, 2020
The book of Ecclesiastes advises that the Almighty sends rain to fall on both the just and the unjus... Read More
Trump's Vague Commitment to Criminal Justice Reform: The President's Daughter Says 'We're Just Getting Started,' but His Campaign Has Not Offered Any Details Sep. 02, 2020
Alice Johnson's appearance at the Republican National Convention last week was a rebuke to Democrati... Read More
Your Father Is Addicted -- So Speak Up Now Aug. 25, 2020
DR. WALLACE: I'm 16 and have a father who has been in jail twice because he was arrested for drunk d... Read More
I'm Still Daddy's Little Girl Jul. 07, 2020
DR. WALLACE: My father died four years ago, and this brought me great pain because I loved him very ... Read More
Isolation a Prime Risk Factor for Suicide May. 29, 2020
So in the era of the pandemic when isolation is being enforced, our community must also confront the... Read More
