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Wadena, Minnesota jail to start charging inmates $20 per day

Nov. 14, 2009 WADENA, Minn. - Starting next year, inmates at the Wadena County Jail will be charged $20 for every day they're housed in the jail. They'll also be responsible for any medical expenses they incur. Wadena County Sheriff Mike Carr says the goal is to deter people who periodically land themselves in jail so they can take advantage of free services.. » read more

Adjusting to life after death row

Nov. 15, 2009 John Thompson spent 14 years on death row for crimes he did not commit. Convicted of killing New Orleans hotel executive Ray Liuzza, and for a carjacking weeks later, he was preparing to be sent to his death at the notorious Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana - the largest maximum security prison in the United States. After six execution dates, John had exhausted all his appeals. His seventh date - 22 May 1999 - was to be his last.. » read more

States where juveniles serve life terms

Nov. 7, 2009 (SCROLL DOWN) * * * * * * * * * Distribution, by state, of juvenile offenders sentenced to life in prison without parole, and the number of juvenile offenders serving such sentences for crimes in which no one was killed: State Life Life-nonfatal crimes Ala. 62 0 Ariz. 32 0 Ark. 73 0 Calif.. » read more

The Cruelty of Confinement of the Cuban Five: A Tiny Yellow Pencil

Oct. 28, 2009 While waiting for his resentencing in a Miami jail, Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five, wrote a poem describing what he sees, hears and feels during the week he spent in the “hole.” Antonio writes in describing his routine: “once again tiny yellow pencil.” With this tiny yellow pencil, “accorded” by the prison authorities from time to time, Tony’s voice, and that of the other Cuban Five, goes out to millions of people around the world: heads of state, international personalities and organizations and people from all walks of life that are increasingly discovering the truth about this case. His writing and his paintings show that this is a man of profound convictions, honest, transparent, peaceful and sensitive to the problems of the people, even putting that concern before his own intolerable conditions under which he has been suffering for over eleven years.. » read more

Tariq Mehanna: Obama's Latest Muslim Target

Oct. 28, 2009 Post-9/11, Muslims have been victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism, and charity. They've been targeted, hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence, convicted on bogus charges, given long sentences, then incarcerated for extra harsh treatment as political prisoners in segregated Communication Management Units (CMUs) in violation of US Prison Bureau regulations and the Supreme Court's February 2005 Johnson v. California decision. An October 21 FBI press release announced Tariq (mispelled Tarek) Mehanna as its most recent target saying: "A Sudbury, Mass.. » read more

Supreme Court to consider Uighurs' plea for freedom

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:05 PM The Supreme Court today put aside objections from the Obama administration and said it will consider whether judges have the right to release into the U.S. detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who have been determined not to be a terrorist threat. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.. » read more

Netherlands to Close Prisons: Not Enough Criminals

Oct. 7, 2009 For years prohibitionists, including our own Drug Enforcement Administration, have claimed — falsely — that the tolerant marijuana policies of the Netherlands have made that nation a nest of crime and drug abuse. They may have trouble wrapping their little brains around this: The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them. Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate. Just for fun, let’s compare the Netherlands to California.. » read more

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