More Black Men Now In Prison System Than Were Enslaved Before the Civil War...
LA Progressive reports on law professor Michelle Alexander’s stunning claims: “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War...
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This powerful animated video exposes how our immigrant community is being sold to private prisons for obscene profits. Top three facts to know about private prisons (via immigrantsforsale.org): The...
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The Drug War’s Effect On Bodies And Minds
Via Brooklyn Rail, Jason Flores-Williams, a defense lawyer whose father spent sixteen years in prison on drug charges, on the influence of the War on Drugs on how we think: There are two kinds of power...
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Man Forced To Do Prison Labor While Awaiting Trial Sues For ‘Slavery’
It’s always good to see someone pushing back against the grotesqueries of the prison-industrial complex. Via Boing Boing: In 2008, Finbar McGarry, a grad student at the University of Vermont, was...
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Rare 13th Amendment Lawsuit Takes On Prison-Industrial Complex
Picture: Jacob Lawrence (PD) As previously reported, a Vermont man is currently suing in Federal Court claiming that his forced labor as a pretrial detainee was in violation of the 13th Amendment. From...
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Notorious For-Profit Prison Company Doing ‘Drug Sweeps’ Of Arizona Public...
Corrections Corporation of America, recently sued over its collaborating with violent gangs, is now partnering with police to conduct “lock down sweeps” in which high schoolers are locked in their...
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The Likely Effect Of Obama’s Move To Put Armed Officers In Schools
The tragedy of American mass shootings inspires terrible choices. Regarding the president’s move to encourage the further policification of schools, Unprison writes: The 18th Executive Order signed by...
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California Reconsiders Draconian Three-Strikes Prison Sentences
American justice: 17 years behind bars for stealing cigarettes. The Los Angeles Times writes: A Los Angeles County judge responsible for reconsidering the life prison terms of more than 1,000 offenders...
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Have Prisons Become The Mass Housing Of Our Time?
Via Creative Time Reports, aerial photographer Christoph Gielen on prisons as the new housing boom: Since 1980, when the U.S. prison population began to increase dramatically, Americans have been...
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How A Man Was Sentenced To Life In Prison For Stealing A Pair Of Socks
Via Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi on crime and punishment under California’s Three Strikes law: Suddenly, a pair of socks caught his eye. He grabbed them and slipped them into a shopping bag. “No, they...
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Police Kill Woman Fleeing Drug Warrants
I feel safer now, don’t you? Via Information Liberation: A police officer in the suburban Dallas community of Richardson, Texas, shot and killed a woman with outstanding drug arrest warrants as she...
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Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors
Another creamy morsel from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The post Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors appeared first on disinformation.
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Accepting Alternate Forms Of Intelligence In The Animal Kingdom
Our inability to perceive animal intelligence revealed the limits of our own. Via the Wall Street Journal, Frans de Waal writes: Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task....
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When Astronauts Weep
The Canadian Space Agency addresses what happens when astronauts cry in zero gravity. The post When Astronauts Weep appeared first on disinformation.
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The 1969 Science Fiction Novel Which Eerily Predicted Today
John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar, written more than forty years ago but set in an imagined year 2010 in which ever more power is concentrated in the hands of a few global corporations, is eerily...
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Sting Asked About President’s Drone Strikes
At a charity event in Sting’s honor, Luke Rudkowski asked Sting about this feelings on Obama’s drone strikes. Sting has told reporters in the past that he believes Obama was “sent from God” to fix the...
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Eight Cures That Did More Harm Than Good
Arallyn Primm writes at Mental Floss: No one likes to be sick or suffering. Humans have tried to fight against disease and affliction since we could first comprehend “Hey, I ate that root, and now I...
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London Throws Party Celebrating Death Of Margaret Thatcher
Reuters reports that only “hundreds” of people turned up for “the party of a lifetime” celebrating the death of reviled (and occasionally revered) former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher in London...
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Obama’s Drone Strikes Aren’t Killing Who You Think They Are
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Power Of CERN Collider To Be Doubled, May Reveal Extra Dimensions
Are we ready for a hint of the eleven-dimensional world? Via Reuters: “When this refit is completed,” CERN scientist Marc Goulette says, gesturing across the gigantic Large Hadron Collider (LHC), “we...
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