Cecily McMillan Rikers Island and the Manifestation of American Exceptionalism

As you read the appalling details surrounding the behaviour of the staff at Rikers Island Jail, NY, you might, like I, wonder if this is ju...

Texas: More School To Prison Pipeline

I had thought to write a few words on this latest perversion, for it can be called nothing other, this latest perversion to come out of Amer...

Solitary Confinement Policy Bites Colorado Corrections on the Arse

Unfortunately it bit the wrong fellow, for the recently murdered, Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements, had set to and i...

A Hidden World Of Astonishing Violence: America's Brutal Prisons Re-Up

I am re-upping this 2007 post to accompany the post above. A Hidden World Of Astonishing Violence: America's Brutal Prisons This is not...

US is the Worst Police State in the World – By the Numbers

US is the Worst Police State in the World – By the Numbers by Glen Ford August 31, 2012 There’s no getting around the fact that the United S...

Women Prisoners in the US Still Shackled Whilst Giving Birth

This isn't news to me, I have known about this practice for years, but I have a feeling that it may come as quite a shock to some of my ...

How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents

The US judicial system has a thousand faults and is rotten to the core. One of the first things that needs outlawing is the use of testimony...

Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders

Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders By Glen Ford April 25, 2012 The nation’s largest private prison company, the Correc...