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The Woodfox Judgement
Thanks to right-wing courts, the draconian sentencing guidelines passed by state and federal legislatures–and, believe it or not, the actions of Bill Clinton–the numbers of older prisoners in American...
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Drugsters in Academia: How Big Pharma “Educates” American Doctors
The pharmaceutical industry has wormed its way into the hearts and minds of the medical professions in any number of ways—wining and dining doctors, sending them off to vacation in splendid spas, and...
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Congress’s Oil Industry “Reforms” = Election-Year Greenwashing
This morning’s Washington Post reports on efforts in Congress to strengthen regulation of oil companies. Two key Senate committees approved legislation Wednesday that would change the way the federal...
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Supreme Court on Pfizer’s Pharmaceutical Colonialism
Victims and families protest outside the courthouse in Kano, Nigeria, in 2008. Photo: AFP. While the media was chewing over the Supreme Court’s gun decision earlier in the week, another significant...
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How to Become Your Own One-Member Death Panel
If you’ve read my new Mother Jones article on the health care rationing controversy, “Meet the Real Death Panels,” you know that I have strong feelings about end-of-life choice. In the article, I...
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On Bastille Day, No Mercy for Prisoners from Sarkozy or Obama
Charles Thévenin, "La prise de la Bastille," 1793. Musée Carnavalet, Paris. The following Bastille Day Post appeared this morning on Sara Mayeux’s Prison Law Blog: On this day 221 years ago,...
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9/11: One Family’s Brave Effort to Expose Airline Culpability
An article in Saturday’s New York Times describes how all the families suffering losses on 9/11 have now taken settlements, receiving some $7 billion from the government and $500 million in private...
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“Geezer in the Hole”: The Reality of Aging Behind Bars
Over the past few years there has been a growing interest in the increasing numbers of older prisoners. At times this interest has been accompanied by some piddling gestures to alleviate their...
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Green Is the New Red: The Crackdown on Environmental Activists
One morning back in 2002, Will Potter, a young newspaper reporter on the metro desk at the Chicago Tribune, heard three heavy knocks on his apartment door. When he opened it, two FBI agents flashed...
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What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime
Long before the War on Terror, there was the War on Crime. And as much as 9/11 was a watershed event, many aspects of the nation’s response to the terrorist attacks find longstanding precedent in the...
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