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Apr.10.2010
When Sting talked about legalisation of drugs, the poor guy had to sound like a nice guy. So he said that the money the US spends on reforming drug users and imprisoning them could be better used to tackle poverty and global warming.
I think he was high when he said that. Poverty and Global...
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Mar.27.2010
Conrad Black Loses Palm Beach Home By Alex Alvarez on Mar 26, 2010 02:20 PM
Former publishing mogul Conrad Black, known also as "prisoner 18330-424," has now lost his Palm Beach mansion. This is the same mansion in which Black threw himself a lavish "I'm Going Off To Jail For 6.5...
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Mar.21.2010
Spoon Jackson's book of poems -- Longer Ago -- is now available on lulu.com Spoon's and my By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives -- a two-person memoir -- is also now available for purchase.
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Mar.04.2010
Just when I'm coming to grips with the amount of child sexual abuse that occurs I begin to think about women's prisons. I start hearing statistics like one in four women in prison are sexually assaulted, 20% of inmates in men's prisons are sexually assaulted and 50% of women in prison were...
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Feb.02.2010
Most of the men I know in prison (I mostly know men) are serving some kind of life sentence. Some -- like Spoon -- are serving life without possibility of parole. Some -- like Coties -- have a sentence so long (99 years) that it stands as a life sentence. Others -- like Elmo -- are serving term-to-...
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Nov.17.2009
The North Korean capture and Clinton-assisted release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee brought a compelling human element into a conflict that many Americans know little about. I’m a Korean-American novelist who also paid scant attention to the North Korean regime until Ling and Lee’s 140-day...
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Nov.05.2009
Kenneth E. Hartman’s is the third book to come out this fall written by men doing time. I’ve written before about Dwayne Betts’ A Question of Freedom and Jarvis Masters’ That Bird Has My Wings, and now I want to share a few words about Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars by Kenneth...
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Nov.04.2009
As Samantha (Josephine's cell mate) had said, the guard opened their cell door at chow time and the two women walked to the cafeteria. No sooner had they sat down when they were confronted by a very stern looking inmate.
“Regardless of what anyone has told you,” the woman...
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Oct.31.2009
Phyllis Kornfeld – whose Cellblock Visions is a powerful and beautiful collection of art made by people in prison – has begun the Inside/Outside Envelope Project. As Phyllis describes: “Envelope art is a long-standing tradition in prison art. Beautiful envelopes sent to loved ones communicate a...
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Oct.24.2009
This sounds a bit weird despite its tragic resonances. One can imagine that in Guantanamo Bay some kinds of music might be considered torture simply because of their quality. Here we are talking decibel levels to “help break uncooperative detainees”.
Musicians have joined the coalition that is...
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