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Sep.16.2011
Boulder, Col,, Aug. 25th...An explosive new study claims that constipation is the number one cause of crime in the developed world.
"Colonic blockage is a more important factor in predicting criminal activity than poverty, drugs or mental illness," declares study co-author, Dr....
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Apr.26.2011
How Guantánamo Bay became Kafkas's trialThe WikiLeaks files story of one detainee, Abdullah Kafkas, reveals the extrajudicial phantasmagoria of Guantánamo Bayby Pratap Chatterjee The Guantánamo Bay files spell out the Americans' suspicions about individual detainees' involvement with terrorism,...
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Apr.26.2011
How Guantánamo Bay became Kafkas's trialThe WikiLeaks files story of one detainee, Abdullah Kafkas, reveals the extrajudicial phantasmagoria of Guantánamo Bayby Pratap Chatterjee The Guantánamo Bay files spell out the Americans' suspicions about individual detainees' involvement with terrorism,...
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Feb.22.2011
Imagine a young girl that has been abandoned early on by her biological mother and grandmother — who both share a history of emotional instability (including drug and alcohol abuse) and several generations of suicidal behavior. In spite of being adopted and nurtured by a loving family, by her teen...
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Feb.20.2011
This is far more fitting than the educators might imagine. Kafka knew of prisons (exact and ephemeral). He was also an excellent lawyer and knew his way around a court room, though he did not participate in many cases. In both "The Trial" and "The Penal Colony", the justice...
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Feb.04.2011
Who do we (those of us with some power) forget when we talk about history, public policy, and what it means to be human? Which children do we nurture? Which do we shun?
Black History Month honors the forces and flows that shape a people and our nation. Coties Perry and Spoon Jackson -- along with...
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Jan.26.2011
Betty shuffled and turned over cards on the table by the guard station, not even looking up as Pearl walked past. Making as little noise as possible, Pearl slipped down the stairs and to the cell.
As soon as she walked through the door, her cellmate shoved a frayed grayish rag and a spray can at...
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Oct.20.2010
In the early 19th century, the most astute observer of the nascent United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, commented on the startling divide between the promised freedoms of this country and the “despotisms” of its prisons. I’m sure he’d be disappointed to learn how little has changed inside the...
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Sep.06.2010
The life of a female inmate in prison.
“Once Upon a Time……….I dreamt of a happy marriage, having children, traveling with my mate to far away lands, celebrating my 50th wedding anniversary like my grandparents did, having grandchildren and great-grandchildren surround me with love as I grow old....
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Aug.20.2010
The most exclusive book club I have met with since the publication of my novel, THE CRYING TREE, was at the Coffee Creek Correctional Center in Wilsonville, Oregon. There, in the prison’s small library, I sat down with eight inmates who had just read my book and had plenty to say about its topics:...
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