epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Simon [Simon, Jonathan]

5 Places of Extreme Peril Coleman-Plata v. Schwarzenegger and California’s Prisons in the Era of Chronic Hyper-Overcrowding Tough-on-crime politics have increased the population of California’s prisons dramatically while making necessary ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-25 | Author:Steve Simpson [Simpson, Steve]

Aftershocks of the Cartoons Crisis April 2006: Comedy Central refuses to broadcast an image of Muhammad in a South Park episode, citing “concerns for public safety.” September 2006: A leading ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lewis M. Steel

15 Tony Maynard At around four in the morning of April 3, 1967, a white Marine sergeant, Michael Kroll, dressed in his uniform and recently back from the Vietnam War, ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:David K. Shipler

Limbaugh went on, in a rare violation of the unwritten cultural rule against the word “uppity”: “Obama is uppity, but not as a black. He is an elitist. He does ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-25 | Author:Jean Casella

SURVIVING Weak as Motherfuckers BRIAN NELSON Brian Nelson, fifty, was born in Chicago and went to prison for murder in 1982 when he was sixteen years old. Nelson was later ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Neuwirth [Neuwirth, Jessica]

DISCRIMINATORY LAWS “Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. I have three ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-20 | Author:Raymond Wacks [Wacks, Raymond]

Modes of approval Long before the current spate of anti-terrorist measures, the United States had enacted several statutes, both at federal and state level, which set standards to be satisfied ...

epub |eng | | Author:Amatrudo, Anthony,Blake, Leslie William.

Chapter 6 Victims, victimology and human rights Introduction These are interesting times for the study of victims’ rights and what Ashworth wrote in 2000 still holds true today, namely that ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-24 | Author:Michael Gurnow [Gurnow, Michael]

Chapter 7 Black Rain “The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.” –Edward Snowden, public statement made during the G9 meeting, July 12, 20131 The fallout ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:Jess Bravin

10 Mr. Bean THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WASTED no time appealing Judge Robertson’s order. By holding the United States to its treaty obligations, Robertson had interfered with “important military determinations of ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Radley Balko

THE ELECTION OF BILL CLINTON IN 1992 GAVE HOPE TO some in the drug reform community that an admitted pot smoker who had some ties to the counterculture during his ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bernstein, Nell [Bernstein, Nell]

PART II Burning Down the House 10 A NEW WAVE OF REFORM A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. —Paul Romer, professor of economics, Stern School of Business, New ...

epub |eng | | Author:Glenn Greenwald [Greenwald, Glenn]

The mortgage debacle in the United States has raised deep questions about “the rule of law,” the universally accepted hallmark of an advanced, civilized society. The rule of law is ...

epub |eng | | Author:Radley Balko [Balko, Radley]

THE ELECTION OF BILL CLINTON IN 1992 GAVE HOPE TO some in the drug reform community that an admitted pot smoker who had some ties to the counterculture during his ...

epub |eng | | Author:David E. Wilkins

CHAPTER 6 The Era of the Imperial Judiciary Since the late 1980s, the federal government’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches—along with that unwieldy and unyielding mass known simply as the ...