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Reader Stories And Letters
posted Sep 30, 2000
- Reader Stories and Letters in response the "Is It Time to Close the Prisons" Issue.
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Prisons That Work
posted Sep 30, 2000
- Survey of prison reform. Prisons that Work. Adapted from "A Model Prison," by Robert Worth, from Atlantic Monthly November 1995; "Prison without Walls," by Jim Merkel, from In Context, Spring 1994; and "Politically Correct Punishment" by Jeffrey Banner, Mother Jones' MoJo Wire, March 2000.
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Choose Life: End the Death Penalty
by Sister Helen Prejeanposted Sep 30, 2000 - Sister Helen's work with Patrick Sonnier and her campaign against the death penalty.
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The Hard Road of Forgiveness
by Mary Sue Pennposted Sep 30, 2000
- Bill Pelke forgives his grandmother's killer and works with Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation to oppose the death penalty.
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The Prison Industry Goes Global
by Stephen Nathanposted Sep 30, 2000
- Corporations promote prision privatization around the world and may use the World Trade Organization to open new markets.
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American Gulag
by Jerome G. Millerposted Sep 30, 2000
- Why does the "home of the free" lock up 2 million men, women, boys, and girls-most of them people of color?
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On the Day the Children Marched
by Reginald Sinclair Lewisposted Sep 30, 2000 - Children protest the scheduled execution of Reggie Lewis and march against capital punishment. Poetry.
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Song of the Land
by Philip M. Klaskyposted Sep 30, 2000
- Mohave Creation Song cycle describes relation of the Mohave to their land and helps prevent Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump.
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Street Ministers
by Michael Jonasposted Sep 30, 2000
- In 1990 Boston had 152 killings; in 1999, the number had fallen to 30, not one of them a juvenile. Boston's nationally acclaimed approach to stemming gang violence and youth crime is examined.
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Genesee Peacemakers
by Sarah van Gelderposted Sep 30, 2000
- Involving victims in the criminal justice system can lead to healing, community empowerment, and fewer repeated offenses.
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Readers' Forum
posted Sep 30, 2000
- Reader comments on labeling laws GMO's, YES belly tattoo
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White on Black, Black on White
by Carol Estes, Robert Jeffreyposted Sep 30, 2000
- Two perspectives on a talking circle about racism held following the WTO protests in Seattle.
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War Games
by Carol Estesposted Sep 30, 2000
- the War on Drugs: the social cost of the drug war and the people in and out of the criminal justice system who are calling for an end to war.
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Is It Time to Close the Prisons Discussion Guide
posted Sep 30, 2000
- Have you, or has someone close to you, spent time in jail or prison? What was the experience like? How did it change you/them?
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Conservation Measures
by Susan Callanposted Sep 30, 2000
- Eco-design resources for making a green workplace.
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