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...
View ArticleHasan 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...
View ArticleInterview 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...
View ArticleDan 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:...
View ArticleWhat’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,...
View ArticleLearning 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...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleConjugal 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...
View ArticleObama’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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticlePrisons, 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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