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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

From Forbes While studying the history of business practices, HBS researcher Caitlin Rosenthal made a startling discovery:  Many of the techniques pioneered by slave owners in the 1800s are widely used...

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Hasan of the Lucasville Prisoner Uprising

from AshevilleFM This week, we spoke with Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan who is facing the death penalty for his role as a negotiator during the prisoner uprising at the SOCF facility in Lucasville in...

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Interview With Crimethinc.

From Mask Magazine – Interview by Hanna Hurr To Change Everything, Start Anywhere The radical milieu in the U.S. is vibrant and complex, but few projects last very long. Generations shift rapidly, and...

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Dan Berger Illustrates Centrality of Prison to Civil Rights Struggle

From Truth Out Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger, University of North Carolina Press, 416 pages with 28 illustrations, $34.95 hardcover. (Release date:...

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What’s Worked in the Past: Learning From Ferguson

From Counter Punch/ by Peter Gelderloos This is the second part of a three part series. The first part can be read here. The announcement of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson caught me on the road,...

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Learning from Ferguson: A World Without Police

From Counterpunch – by Peter Gelderloos In two previous essay, I discussed the role of the Left in protecting the police through cautious reformism, and the effectiveness of a pacified, falsified—in a...

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For Shame! Public Shaming Sentences on the Rise

From Prison Legal News/ by David M. Reutter Punishments intended to shame offenders for wrongdoing, popular throughout history, are once again on the rise – particularly as penalties imposed by judges...

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Conjugal Visits

From The Marshall Project Why they’re disappearing, which states still use them, and what really happens during those overnight visits. Although conjugal, or “extended,” visits play a huge role in...

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Obama’s Police Reforms Ignore the Most Important Cause of Police Misconduct

These well-meaning changes will simply reproduce racial inequality. From The Nation/ By Alex S. Vitale President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing has released a long list of reforms to...

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What I Learned From Breaking the Law

In 1971, I helped burglarize an FBI office and leaked documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s abuses of power. Here’s what that experience taught me. From The Nation/ By John Raines I have been asked...

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Prisons, Ecology and the Birth of an Empire

From Earth First! Newswire/ By Panagioti Strange sometimes how worlds collide. Nine years ago I found myself in the swamps of the northeastern Everglades listening to an independent, traditional...

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