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Published in: HomeThe Phoenix Project seeks trauma victims for doc seriesA new documentary series that explores the pervasive effect of trauma in our culture has begun development and is...
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Published in: Home'Secure Communities' still destroying immigrant families
A young activist gets his father released from detention but many more will be deported breaking up families with...
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Published in: Home"The Plastic People" explores mass-deportation
The recently released trailer for an upcoming documentary set in Tijuana, Mexico by openDemocracy editor Charles...
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Published in: HomeMandatory Minimums Forced Me to Send More Than 1,000 Nonviolent Drug Offenders to Federal Prison
If lengthy mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug addicts actually worked, one might be able to rationalize...
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Published in: Home"Land of the Free" - The best investigative reporting on U.S. prisons
The U.S. has the highest reported incarceration rate in the world. Pro Publica has just compiled some of the best...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with Mary Barr (Pt. II)
Part II of the Exile Nation Project's interview with former crack cocaine addict and prostitute Mary Barr, who now...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Mary Barr (Pt. 1)
Mary Barr is a former crack cocaine addict and prostitute who now works as a lecturer at John Jay College of...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Robert Manor
Robert Manor was the Prison & Jail Monitor for the John Howard Association. The John Howard Association is a...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Allison T. Moore
Allison Moore was once labelled a "habitual offender" by the State of Pennsylvania for receiving seven convictions...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Ronald "Shaka" Howard
Ronald "Shaka" Howard is a former crack cocaine addict who spent 25 years in the California Department of...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Dorothy Johnson-Speight
Dorothy Johnson-Speight is the Executive Director of Mother's in Charge, a Philadelphia-based charity made up of...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - "Forgiving her son's killer"
In this special preview clip from her upcoming interview, Dorothy Johnson-Speight speaks bravely and poignantly...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Lynda Adams
Lynda Adams is the wife of Ken Adams (TENP #26), and like him, has battled an addiction to crack cocaine for over 30...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Ken Adams
Ken Adams of Oakland, CA has spent the last 30 years battling an addiction to crack cocaine. He has served a total...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Robert Halstead
Robert Halstead (son of Janet Maddox Goree featured last week) is serving a 30 year sentence for armed robbery at a...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug & Criminal Justice Front Line Report - March 28, 2012This week negative critique of the War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex goes mainstream (and, dare we say,...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Janet Maddox Goree
"The man who murdered my grandchild got probation, and my son, who didn't hurt anyone, got 30 years. How can that...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Chris Bava
Chris Bava is a former heroin trafficker who served 8 years in Federal prison following a worldwide sting operation...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug & Criminal Justice - Front Line Report: March 21, 2012
This week we take in the "Branson Follies" as The UK's most fun-loving Billionaire goes on the offensive with...
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Published in: HomePeace in Medicine: Inside California's Medical Cannabis Industry
Go inside the professional operations of Peace in Medicine, a licensed cannabis dispensary in Northern California...
