Tag: Prison

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

A/V Booth: Freed Egyptian Activist Speaks Out

Ear to the Ground: The Gitmo Price Tag

Ear to the Ground: California County to Charge Prisoners for Jail Stay

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Torture in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Arts and Culture: Incarceration—It’s Catching

Ear to the Ground: Prisons to Provide Treatment for Transgender Inmates

Ear to the Ground: Iran’s Foreign Minister Hints at Prisoner Swap for 2 Hikers

A/V Booth: Cornel West Recalls the Attica Prison Rebellion

Ear to the Ground: Activist Spells Out Our Great Shame

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Hikers in Iran Sentenced to 8 Years

Ear to the Ground: Criminal Justice: ‘Normalizing’ Exploitation

Ear to the Ground: What We Have Here Is a Failure to Compensate

Arts and Culture: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Is Sprung From Jail

Truthdig Podcast: The Body Baggers of Iraq

A/V Booth: The Body Baggers of Iraq

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Reports: Cleaning Up California’s Cruel Prison System

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Orders California to Lose as Many as 46,000 Prisoners

Ear to the Ground: Another Suicide Reported at Guantanamo

A/V Booth: Immigrants for Sale

Ear to the Ground: Nothing but the Bible for These South Carolina Inmates, ACLU Says

Ear to the Ground: Dear Hillary Clinton, Our Human Rights Record Is ‘Deplorable’ Too

Reports: Three Strikes and Civil Rights

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Banker Fined by Swiss Court

Ear to the Ground: Illinois Is One Signature Away From Ending the Death Penalty

Reports: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Suspect’s Health Declining

Ear to the Ground: Assange Ordered Out of Jail on Bail

Ear to the Ground: Liu’s Peace Prize Goes to an Empty Chair

Ear to the Ground: Israel Moves to Corral Illegal Entrants

Ear to the Ground: Prison-Industrial Complex Helped Write and Pass SB 1070

Ear to the Ground: Stevens v. Scalia

Reports: Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses

Ear to the Ground: Glenn Greenwald Is on Collapsing Empire Watch

A/V Booth: Prison Economy Spirals as Cigarette Prices Spike

Reports: Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

Ear to the Ground: Yemeni Militants Kill 11, Free Prisoners

Reports: Profiting From Immigration Injustice

Ear to the Ground: Missionary Release

Reports: Turning King’s Dream Into a Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Guantánamo Bay Prisoner Transfer Delayed

Ear to the Ground: Will This Prison Become ‘Gitmo North’?

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Prisoners’ New Digs?

Ear to the Ground: Spam ‘Godfather’ Sentenced

Arts and Culture: R.E.M. and Their Musical Friends Push to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay

Ear to the Ground: A Cruel and Unusual Waste of Money

Ear to the Ground: Fujimori Is Found Guilty, Again

A/V Booth: Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journo to Be Released From Jail

Ear to the Ground: From the Freezer to the Cooler

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Reportedly Wins Freedom for 2 U.S. Journalists in N. Korea

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo 2

Reports: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

Cartoons: Welcome to the Next 150 Years

Reports: America’s ICE Backwards Approach to Immigration

Ear to the Ground: Drugs Are Sick

Reports: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Truthdig Podcast: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Ear to the Ground: Saberi’s Side of the Story

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Arts and Culture: Norman Birnbaum on Susan Sontag

Ear to the Ground: The Age of ‘Crimmigration’

Reports: Jailing Kids for Cash

Ear to the Ground: Tsvangirai to World: ‘Get Over’ Mugabe

Arts and Culture: Protecting the Homeland From Homeland Security

A/V Booth: Obama Signs Order to Close Guantanamo

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Arts and Culture: Blagojevich Immortalized in Nude Painting

Reports: Torture Proponents Have No Serious Argument

Reports: Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

Arts and Culture: O.J. Simpson Sentenced to Prison

Ear to the Ground: Bush Pardons 14

Ear to the Ground: Howdy, Pardoner

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Reports: Six Held at Guantanamo After Plot Claim Is Dropped

Reports: Stevens’ Corruption Was About the Little Things

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Court Resentences Activist

Arts and Culture: Simon Lewis on Traumatic Brain Injuries

Arts and Culture: Satirist Finds the Pope Is Off-Limits

Cartoons: J’appelle un Chat un Chat

Ear to the Ground: China Under Fire for Olympic Crackdowns

Ear to the Ground: Argentine ‘Dirty War’ Murderer Gets Life

Ear to the Ground: Mandela at 90

A/V Booth: Jesse Jackson Backpedals on Obama Comment

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on American Eugenics

A/V Booth: Over 850 Afghan Prisoners at Large After Kahdahar Raid

Ear to the Ground: Taliban-Led Raid Frees 1,200 in Afghan Prison Break

Ear to the Ground: Egyptian Blogger Endured ‘Weeks of Torture and Humiliation’

Ear to the Ground: Former Illinois Governor Is Denied Appeal, Stays in Prison

Ear to the Ground: The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Ear to the Ground: Land of the Not-So-Free

Ear to the Ground: Inside a CIA Black Site

Reports: Dr. Al-Arian’s Third Strike

Reports: Lessons of Internment

Reports: Millions Without a Voice

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Army Officer Cleared in Abu Ghraib Case

Reports: Surviving a CIA ‘Black Site’

Reports: Lance Williams on Barry Bonds

Ear to the Ground: Sudanese Rally for Execution of British Teacher

Reports: America’s Gulag Goes Before the Court

Ear to the Ground: Teacher Arrested for Teddy Bear Name Game

Ear to the Ground: Britain to Investigate ‘CIA Black Site’

Reports: Sweeping Our Inhumanity Under the Rug

Reports: Outsourcing Torture

Ear to the Ground: Top Court Refuses to Hear Torture Case

Reports: Crime, Poverty and Education: It’s Not Rocket Science

Truthdig Podcast: Crime, Poverty and Education: It’s Not Rocket Science

A/V Booth: Things to Do in Prison ... in the Philippines

Reports: It’s the Ecstasy, Stupid

Ear to the Ground: White House Considers Shutting Down Guantanamo

Reports: It Can Happen Here

Ear to the Ground: Colin Powell: Close Guantanamo Immediately

Ear to the Ground: Welcome Back, Jack Kevorkian

Ear to the Ground: Italian Prisoners Ask for Death

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Detainee Commits Suicide

Ear to the Ground: Cleared Detainees Stuck in Gitmo Limbo

Ear to the Ground: Chief of U.S. Prison in Baghdad Arrested

Reports: When Justice Is Skin-Deep

Multimedia Gallery: Abu Ghraib

Ear to the Ground: Blogger Jailed Longer Than Any Other Modern Journalist

Reports: Susan McDougal: The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk

Reports: Paul Cummins: Writing Poetry Beats Armed Robbery

Ear to the Ground: 14-Year-Old Was Likely Beaten to Death

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Has More Prisoners Than Any Other Country

Ear to the Ground: Public Money Used to Indoctrinate Prisoners

Ear to the Ground: Nicaragua Abortion Law Leaves Women and Doctors With No Options

Ear to the Ground: Skilling Gets 24 Years

Reports: Molly Ivins: Remembering Ann Richards

A/V Booth: Lauer Challenges Bush on Torture, CIA Prisons

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Will Give All U.S. Detainees Geneva Rights

Multimedia Gallery: A Raid at Dusk

Ear to the Ground: Judge Strikes Down Iowa Christian Prison Program

Cartoons: Luckovich - Bush Rallies His Base

Ear to the Ground: 1 in 136 U.S. Residents Behind Bars

Ear to the Ground: Frank Rich: ‘Traitors’ in the White House and Senate

Ear to the Ground: Moussaoui Gets Life for 9/11 Role

Ear to the Ground: More Torture Discovered in Iraqi Jails

Ear to the Ground: In the Vanguard of Criminalizing Abortion

Ear to the Ground: Abramoff Gets Almost Six Years in Prison

Ear to the Ground: The Abu Ghraib Files

Ear to the Ground: Symbol of Abu Ghraib Seeks to Spare Others His Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Abu Ghraib Closing? Don’t Cheer Just Yet

Ear to the Ground: Doctors Attack US Over Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Ex-Rep. Cunningham Gets Eight Years

Ear to the Ground: Bush: Torture Ban Not Valid at Gitmo

Ear to the Ground: Navy Warned Pentagon on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Annan Backs Guantanamo Closure

Ear to the Ground: Abramoff and the Mob

Ear to the Ground: Mark Ruffalo, Daniel Ellsberg Can’t Wait

Ear to the Ground: European MP’s Will Probe CIA Jails Claim

Ear to the Ground: Fresh Torture Claims Arise at Guantanamo

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