From The Guardian: Texas, the powerhouse of the death penalty in America which last year executed more than twice the number of prisoners than any other state, is running out of supplies of lethal drugs and may be incapable of carrying out further death sentences beyond June. The state prides…
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From NYT: Large debt collectors and credit reporting companies would face regular federal oversight for the first time under a broad new proposal announced on Thursday by the consumer finance watchdog. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a draft rule that would allow the agency to supervise two significant corners…
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From Metroweekly: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the 2012 Democratic Party platform including, for the first time, language in full support of marriage equality, her spokesman told Metro Weekly on Tuesday evening, Feb. 14. The former House speaker’s support for the move comes in response to Freedom to…
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From Slate: Prominent Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wants Mitt Romney to urge the Mormon church to abandon its practice of posthumously baptizing Jews, some of whom died in concentration camps during World War II. In an interview with the Huffington Post, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Wiesel said that Romney “should…
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Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Criminalizing President Obama by Kay Whitlock The 2012 presidential…
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From PrivatizationWatch: As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact. Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up…
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From Mother Jones: [T]he Center on Budget and Policy Priorities decided to add up the numbers and figure out how much money the federal government spends on the nonworking poor. The answer: about 10 percent of all federal welfare spending. How did they come up with that? CBPP’s methodology uses…
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From the BBC News: Many of the victims were burned or suffocated to death in their cells at the jail in Comayagua, in central Honduras. Families flocked to the site, desperate for news. Some prisoners escaped the blaze by breaking through the roof to jump from the building, they said.…
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