Tag Archives: prisons

From Guyana to Canada: police violence can be a class issue

By Renee Martin | Published: November 15, 2009
When the poor do attempt to fight for economic justice, repression is swift.
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Texas prisons and those “crazy” H1N1 vaccines

By Renee Martin | Published: November 10, 2009
Criminality is conceptualized as bad enough to invalidate someone’s right to receive medical care.
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America’s prison problem: if iron bars were cellophane

By Feature Writer | Published: March 3, 2008
If you suggest that maybe, just maybe, building more prisons is dealing with the wrong end of the supply/demand problem, it sounds to people as if you just suggested that they should let someone slit their throats and go sell their TV for crack.
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