Thursday, August 8, 2013

Beard Must Go: California Needs a Fresh start in Corrections, not a Cover-up for Business as Usual

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When Governor Brown appointed Jeffrey Beard to be the new Secretary of Corrections in California last year, it was supposed to signal a new...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Civil Disobedience and Uncivilized Punishment: Run Edward and Keep Running

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Edward Snowden's father recently gave an interview in which he rejected the idea that his son should come home to face US punishment (re...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Race and Reasonable Doubt: Notes from the Sanford Florida Verdict

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The official media narrative is in.  The acquittal of wanna-bee neighborhood guardian George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Mar...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Hunger

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Today, July 8, 2013, prisoners in California's supermax "SHU" units (for Secured Housing Units), are commencing a hunger strik...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Prosecution Complex: Persecuting Aaron Swartz and Degrading the Constitution

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There should be a difference between prosecution and persecution The long “War on Crime,” America’s longest, has...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Lessons from the "sordid decades": Reading the new revelations about miscarriages of justice in New York's "War on Crime" in the '80s and '90s

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Any reader of the paper of record will be impressed with the series of impressive features dealing with various aspects of county level jus...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Living it Up at the Hotel California: For Jerry Brown and California's Political Leadership It's Always 1977

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Watching California politics these days I can't help feeling that I'm lost in the late 1970s, when I first moved to the Golden State...