[This is an article I wrote on June 11, 2007, while Paris Hilton was incarcerated for violation of probation stemming from an original charge of DUI --ENM] I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m just about sick and tired of hearing about poor little rich girl Paris Hilton. Paris, of course, is

Democrat Senator Jim Webb from Virginia, and potential Vice Presidential candidate for Barack Obama, recently held a meeting on Capitol Hill to “get the facts out” about the ineffectiveness of jailing nonviolent offenders for drug-related offenses rather than treating them for their addiction problem. The hearing of the Joint Economic Committee solicited testimony from

on april 27th, guerrilla griots hooked up with cornell’s prison activist coalition and ujamaa residential college to host two elders in the struggle for freedom and justice for africans throughout turtle island and the diaspora… bro herman and sis iyaluua ferguson… GIVE THANKS for an evening of information and conversation about the prison industrial complex and

at the end of october we hosted the SECOND ANNUAL CENTRAL NEW YORK LOCKS CONFERENCE… a gathering to celebrate the beauty of natural hair throughout the african diaspora while challenging the criminalization of communities of color… this year we WELCOMED HOME our family and friends from state and federal prisons… JOIN US on october 25, 2008 as

The Justice Department has released a new report showing the nation’s prison and jail population reached a record 2.3 million people last year. A record 2.3 million people were in the nation’s prisons and jails in 2007, according to a Justice Department report released on June 6, 2008.The report notes that in the 10 largest states,

It is well known that the US leads the world in incarceration rates with 751 per 100,000 people in prison; but it is less well known how China’s incarceration rates compare. Interestingly, China, which is often portrayed as a police state, only has 119 prisoners per 100,000 people, according to December 2007 data posted at King’s

A hot topic within the Georgia prison system these days is tougher parole laws.  Georgia has the fifth largest incarcerated population in the country and that population is growing.  No new prisons are in the works, only wings built on to existing prisons where possible.  Where will the inmates, with the ever-increasing rate of convictions,

I guess our sense of ‘normal’ changes with time, especially when we’ve endured extreme situations. Every once in awhile I’m still caught off guard with things that take me right back to incarceration.  I suppose it’s something that may never go away.  But I kind of like it.  I think because little moments of freedom meant

Often times people assume I will side with a criminal or inmate quicker than I will side with the law, just because I have served time.  I suppose that comes with the label ‘convicted felon’.  Usually it’s in terms of the prison experience.  For instance, it’s no secret that the food served in jails and prisons

Dauphin County joins the growing number of court systems in the Commonwealth that have added a Drug Treatment Court Program. Typically Drug Courts provide an alternative to incarceration for select drug and alcohol related non-violent offenders. “We’ve talked about this for years, and it’s time to get something up and running… — District Attorney Edward M. Marsico