Lawyers, Jails, and the Law’s Fake Bargains
July 1, 2001
Michael Tigar is a leader of the U.S. Bar, and at the same time an avowed radical and activist for social justice. He is Professor of Law at Washington College… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Incarceration
Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U.S. Prisons: An Interview with Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn
July 1, 2001
Marilyn Buck’s address is #00482-285, FCI Dublin Unit B, 5701 8th St. Camp Parks, Dublin, CA 94568. Laura Whitehorn is an editor at POZ magazine. Susie Day is a freelance… READ MORE
Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation
July 1, 2001
Marta Russell and Jean Stewart are writers and disability activists. They would like to thank Helene Knox and Ray Grott for their input on this paper. The story of disablement… READ MORE
Teaching in Prison
July 1, 2001
Monica Frolander-Ulf teaches anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Pennsylvania. Michael D. Yates taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Pennsylvania. He is the author of… READ MORE
Capitalism and Crisis: Creating a Jailhouse Nation
March 1, 2001
Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in The Age of Crisis (Verso,1999), 320 pages, $25 hardcover, $15 paper. � David Gilbert is a long-time anti-imperialist activist. He is serving… READ MORE
Freedom Schooling
December 1, 2000
Grace Lee Boggs writes a column called “Living for Change” for the Fresh Ideas page of the weekly Michigan Citizen (www.michigancitizen.com). This essay is an edited version of two recent… READ MORE
Journalism, Democracy, É and Class Struggle
November 1, 2000
Robert W. McChesney teaches at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and is an Acting Editor of Monthly Review. Portions of this essay appear in the preface to the paperback edition… READ MORE
Capital Crimes: The Political Economy of Crime in America
November 1, 2000
George Winslow, a journalist living in New York City, is the editor of World Screen News, TV Europe, and TV Latina. He the author of Capital Crimes (1999). Sources for… READ MORE
A Poetics of Anticolonialism
November 1, 1999
Robin D.G. Kelley is professor of history and Africana studies at New York University. He is the author of Race Rebels (Free Press, 1996), Yo Mama’s Dysfunktional! (Beacon, 1998), and… READ MORE
Prison Sentences
October 1, 1999
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a prisoner on death row in Waynesburg, PA. Before his incarceration, he was a journalist and activist in Philadelphia. For more info, or to get involved in… READ MORE