Prisons

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Pizza, prison and punishment

Margaret Somerville | 15 January 2013 |

tags: prisons, rehabilitation

An ethical assessment of allowing prisoners to order in the odd pizza or KFC dinner.

Pro-lifers taking a new direction

William West | 15 January 2013 |

tags: abortion, human dignity, human rights, prisons, pro-life

Prison reform is human dignity issue that needs to be addressed urgently.

The prisons pickle

James S. Cole | 20 June 2011 |

tags: prisons, Supreme Court

How Brown v. Plata has undermined Congressional limits on federal court orders, and how citizens have allowed this to happen.

How can US Federal Courts tell States how to run their prisons?

James S. Cole | 09 June 2011 |

tags: California, prisons, US Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court recently ordered California to reduce the numbers in its over-crowded prisons. Has it overstepped its authority?

Mass torture in America

Lance Tapley | 18 February 2011 |

tags: human rights, prisons, torture

There's Guantanamo Bay, and then there are America's supermax prisons, where tens of thousands of citizens are kept in solitary confinement.

The dark side of American exceptionalism

Michael Cook | 07 July 2010 |

tags: human dignity, prisons

Why is 1 in 18 men in the world’s richest nation on probation, on parole or in jail?

Dispatch from death row

Dean Carter | 07 July 2010 |

tags: death penalty, prisons

A first-hand account of what it's like to wait for the California gas chamber for 25 years.