Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Ferguson and Human Dignity

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Michael Brown was buried yesterday (August 25, 2014) in St. Louis, near his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. As the world knows by now, two w...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Inhumanity: The Real Problem with Mass Incarceration

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We may disagree on who belong and who does not belong in prison, or on how long prison sentences should be, or what goals those sentences s...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Life in Prison with the Remote Possibility of Death: The Death Penalty and California's Broken Punishment Paradigm

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Judge Carney's 39 page opinion finding California's death penalty is already setting off a wave of debate in the media. We will see ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

A Botched Execution

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To "botch" something is to carry out a task "badly or carelessly."  Oklahoma's botched execution Tuesday, April 29, ...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Dying Inside: Lifers, the Dying, and California's Correctional Paradigm

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Before the hospice program started by prison chaplain Lorie Adolff, dying prisoners in California's state prison in San Luis Obsipo (Cal...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Abandoning a Failed Penal Experiment: New York's Historic Advantage

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New York has made it share of bad penal policy choices.  Remember the "Rockefeller Drug Laws"; mandatory life sentences for person...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

From Humanity to Health: Why Can't California Get Prison Healthcare Right?

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Yesterday to no doubt considerable embarrassment in the Brown-Beard administration, admissions to California's newest prison near Stockt...
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