Did you know: Hundreds of people have been found to be falsely incarcerated and eventually released? Did you know: Many more may be denied an opportunity to present their claims of innocence in the courts because of current laws? Learn How to Fight for the Rights of Innocent people! Grassroots organizers, prison rights advocates and [...]
By Nathan Gorenstein Inquirer Staff Writer No matter who wins the latest round in the 30-year-old Mumia Abu-Jamal case, unresolved challenges to his death sentence lurk in the files waiting for a day – or a decade – in court. The longevity of Abu-Jamal’s appeals – he was 27 when he shot 25-year-old Philadelphia Police [...]
By Faye Flam Inquirer Staff Writer TONY AUTH / The Philadelphia Inquirer (tauth@phillynews.com) Darwinism is more often associated with the liberal left than the conservative right, but it’s moved a long way across the political spectrum from Darwin’s day, when it was embraced by advocates of free-market economics, colonialism, and similar ideas today associated with [...]
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How “enemy creep” is Guantanamo-izing America. By Karen J. Greenberg Just in case you thought that “political correctness” had been thoroughly discredited in the culture wars of the 1990s, it’s back — and this time it’s being treated as a stalking horse for terrorism and getting pummeled all over again. You only had to listen [...]
If you missed Part I of the Global Kindness Revolution Teleseminar, not to worry. You can access the complete audio file for the Global Kindness Revolution Part I using the link below: Global Kindness Revolution
The Global Kindness Revolution Part 2 Mini Seminar Free & Open to the Public Led by Judith Trustone of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, Founder of Sagewriters & TrustOneKindness Program Description— The Global Kindness Revolution is an antidote to violence and the lack of civility on both sides of prison walls. In this two-part program (the second part [...]
In remembrance of the upcoming anniversary of the Three Miles Island nuclear disaster and its relevance today, I’m posting “Three Miles Island Woman” which was published in a variety of places, none of which I’ve recorded. When friends who were sailing around the world stopped for a while in New Zealand, they saw the poem [...]
Even prisoner advocacy groups focus mainly on the conditions of confinement, without necessarily questioning sentences that drive prisoners to despair. By Liliana Segura Shawangunk Correctional Facility sits on a long swath of land in Wallkill, NY, just west of the Hudson River, and about an hour and 45 minutes north of New York City. Opened [...]
By Chris Foreman TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, March 13, 2011 Rosemary Gido calls state prisons asylums for the invisible, particularly women. A criminology professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Gido said an estimated 42 percent of women in U.S. jails and prisons are mentally ill, compared with 24 percent of men. In Pennsylvania, the Department of Corrections reports [...]