Blog 09 Sep 2021 States of Incarceration by Emily Widra and Tiana Herring Tweet this September 2021 WN: My strongest statement about the horrors of worldwide incarceration… Editor No Comments
Blog back view of security guard leading criminal in handcuffs 08 Feb 2019 Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration WN: The article highlighted below is outstanding commentary on the… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jun 2016 Opposing Mass Incarceration Is “Trendy,” but Can We Stop the Train of Piecemeal Reform? Friday, 03 June 2016 00:00 By James Kilgore, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Image: Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2023 Extensive Commentary On: What white Christian support for Trump reveals about systemic racism By Robert P. Jones | November 12, 2020 WN: Beyond tragic the pullquote to the right, this means four-fifths of American… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Sep 2022 Commentary On: The seeds of Biden’s democracy speech sprouted long before the Mar-a-Lago search By Sam Stein, Eugene Daniels and Jonathan Lemire 09/03/2022 WN: Of The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jun 2022 Interaction With: When the US Is Truly Run by These Fascists It Will Be Too Late Thom Hartmann June 8, 2022 image above: That single strongman Leader is the key to understanding everything else that happens… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 May 2022 David Milgaard, a Dear Friend, Died Suddenly and Unexpectedly Today image above: David Milgaard is photographed after a press conference held by Innocence Canada in Toronto on October 9, 2019.… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Mar 2022 Capitalism and Racism WN: We have been studying an excellent book in this discussion group: How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2022 Circles of Support and Accountability Needless to say, I believe in Restorative Justice and CoSA! Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Apr 2021 Empire Politician: The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Apr 2021 Out of Sight / Out of Mind The Magazine: Spring 2021 COVID-19 in prisons got our attention. Manitoba has quietly been home to the highest incarceration rates… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Mar 2021 Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over March 24, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic photo above: wisegeek.com WN: The "new model" called for in… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Mar 2021 Houses of hate: Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation's penal system is not just failing, it's making things… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Feb 2021 Legalizing All Drugs Is Just the Beginning of a Compassionate Drug Policy By Maya Schenwar, Truthout Published February 13, 2021 photo above: Dr. Carl Hart WN: The contention discussed in this article… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Feb 2021 On Some Bad House Manager Language February 12, 2021 by Paul Street photo above: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2. WN: The highlighted article is a… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jun 2020 An Open Letter To Joe Biden Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 May 2020 Cornel West Says ‘Neo-Fascist Gangster’ Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as ‘Failed Social Experiment’ WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Oct 2019 Harry Nigh started groundbreaking sex-offender support group The Circles of Support and Accountability model has spread worldwide By Julie McGonegal October 22, 2019 WN: Last week in… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2019 Why this ‘genius’ scholar is mapping out the world’s largest jail system photo above: Kelly Lytle Hernández, who received the MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, views prison abolition through the eyes of rebels Fri… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Oct 2019 Playing the Trump Card in Ukraine October 1, 2019 by Victor Grossman WN: Indeed! excerpts: Yes, we all detest Trump and would be gladdened and relieved… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jul 2019 How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration Camps? How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration Camps? By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published July 4, 2019… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Apr 2019 From Restorative Justice to Transformative Justice, Tri-Cities Justice Forum, November 29, 1999 From Restorative Justice to Transformative Justice, Tri-Cities Justice Forum, November 29, 1999 WN: I had forgotten about presentations such as… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2019 Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Published March 14, 2019 photo above:… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Feb 2019 Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Natasha Lennard February 9 2019, 6:00 a.m.… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Feb 2019 The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years America’s prison sentences are far too long. It’s time to… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Dec 2018 Richer Rich People and Terrified Brown People: Bush Was Basically Trump With Better Manners Richer Rich People and Terrified Brown People: Bush Was Basically Trump With Better Manners Wednesday, December 05, 2018 by Abby… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Aug 2018 Millennial Evangelicals Diverge from Their Parents’ Beliefs The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians. By Eliza Griswold… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Aug 2018 What It’s Like Inside the Largest Immigrant Prison in the US By Christina Fialho Salon Published August 4, 2018 photo above: A guard escorts an immigrant detainee from his 'segregation cell'… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jun 2017 Beyond #Canada150: A Statement from Primate Fred Hilz on National Aboriginal Day, June 21, 2017 WN: Below is a wonderful statement by Primate Fred Hilz of the Anglican Church of Canada. Would that all Christians… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jun 2017 White Supremacy Is Anti-Gospel. I’m Glad the Southern Baptist Convention Agrees WN: I copied the entire article below. It is about an historic decision by the Southern Baptist Convention. Russell Moore… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Dec 2016 Calvin Prof on ‘Radical’ Watchlist: ‘The Call of the Prophet Is to Speak Truth’ By Joseph Kuilema 12-07-2016 an excerpt: My own discipline, social work, emerged in part out of the social gospel movement… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Nov 2016 For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Frank Castro, The Hampton Institute | News Analysis photo above: Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Sep 2016 the Iconocast: Fr. John Dear, S.J. (episode 20) – WWW.JESUSRADICALS.COM December 2, 2010 In this interview, Jarrod and Mark interview Father John Dear. Dear is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, lecturer,… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2016 Henry A. Giroux | Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age Monday, 08 August 2016 00:00 photo above: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a crowd during his campaign rally at… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Aug 2016 Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of Colonialism photo above: Activists display a sign decrying the murders of Aboriginal Australians in prison at an Invasion Day march and… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2016 Seeking False Security at Fortress Europe’s Gates Seeking False Security at Fortress Europe's Gates Thursday, 07 July 2016 00:00 By Michelle Chen, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above:… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2016 Electronic Monitoring Is Not the Answer Critical reflections on a flawed alternative James Kilgore October 2015 This is a very well researched paper that applies to… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jun 2016 Cornel West: Black Lives Matter Is an Indictment of Neoliberal Power By George Souvlis, openDemocracy | Interview photo above: Dr. Cornel West speaks at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jun 2016 Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Justice for Torturers? Posted by Rebecca Gordon at 7:25am, June 7, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. photo above: A composite showing some… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Apr 2015 The Inside-Out Gospel By Rev. Michael F. Blevins, J.D., M.Div., LL.M. Executive Director of the NE Iowa Peace & Justice Center, Inc., Decorah,… Editor No Comments
30 Jan 2014 Restorative Justice SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages NOTE: Some of what follows is excerpted from… MasterEditor No Comments
