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Die Suche nach »incarceration« hat 36 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 1 bis 10.

Overflowing Prisons Spur Call for Reform Commission
"We are wasting billions of dollars and diminishing millions of lives. We need to fix the system. Doing so will require a major nationwide recalculation of who goes to prison and for how long and of how... ...
Getting Away with Torture
http://www.commondreams.or g/view/2010/01/05-1 Witne ss Against Torture: Activists and Lawyers Rally, March and Offer Press Briefing, Mark 8 Years of Guantanamo http://www.com mondreams.org/newswire/201 0/01/05-1 Center... ...
Continued incarceration of the innocent
Future of Freedom Foundation by Andy Worthington 10/28/09 Aft er railing against Senators and Representatives for their cowardly, uninformed, and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from... ...
How to argue against torture
CounterPunch by Bernard Chazelle 07/22/09 Anti-t orture voices have been left sounding defensive, insecure, incoherent. Yet, while boasting the world’s highest incarceration numbers and supermax prisons... ...
Unfit for Combat
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Studies that go back to World War II have found that combat veterans are twice as likely to commit suicide as people in the general population. Other lesser known distressing facts... ...
A Black President Doesn't Mean Racism Is Gone in America
Peter Phillips, Truthout: "Racial inequality remains problematic in the US. People of color continue to experience disproportionately high rates of poverty, unemployment, police profiling, repressive incarceration... ...
The invasion of Iraq was clearly an illegal act of aggression
A war resister speaks from prison Common Dreams by Robin Long 03/19/09 The invasion of Iraq was clearly an illegal act of aggression. The U.S. was not under attack or the imminent threat of attack from... ...
Seymour Hersh Describes "Executive Assassination Ring"
Eric Black, MinnPost.com: "At a 'Great Conversations' event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by... ...
The American Criminal Injustice System
By Paul Craig Roberts The US has the highest incarceration rate and the biggest prison population of any country in the world. With 5 percent of the world's population, the US has 25 percent of the world's... ...
America’s shame: Can Jim Webb fix the prison gulag?
AlterNet by Katrina vanden Heuvel 02/16/09 Our criminal justice system is broken. The U.S. represents 5 percent of the world’s population but accounts for nearly 25 percent of its prison population.... ...