To Oklahoma Governor: Richard Glossip Is Innocent (tags)
Please contact Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma to ask that she examine new evidence exonerating Richard Glossip of murder.
Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation --An Interview With Nancy A. Heitzeg (tags)
My interest in Angola is as both a paradigm of the Southern transformation of plantations into prisons and as a prototype for what we now call the prison industrial complex. Many old plantations in the South became prisons after the Civil War. Angela Y. Davis traces the initial rise of the penitentiary system to the abolition of slavery, writing: “in the immediate aftermath of slavery, the southern states hastened to develop a criminal justice system that could legally restrict the possibilities of freedom for the newly released slaves.”
DULUTH DIOCESE BLACKLISTS HELEN PREJEAN, THE DEATH ROW NUN, BECAUSE SHE OPPOSES BUSH (tags)
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, THE DEATH ROW NUN, BLACKLISTED BY THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DULUTH BECAUSE SHE OPPOSES BUSH
Thousands to Rally to Demand - Closure of Controversial US Army Training School this Weeke (tags)
Mass Convergence at Fort Benning, Georgia November 19-20 to Close School of the Americas