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 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 19 Aug 2016 Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails Written by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report photo above: Prisoners walk across the prison yard of Saguaro… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2016 The (US) Justice Department Will End All Federal Private Prisons, Following a ‘Nation’ Investigation | The Nation Our yearlong probe uncovered dozens of questionable deaths and years of dire warnings from internal monitors. By Seth Freed Wessler… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Mar 2015 War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence Streams of Justice, September 28, 2009 WN: I was asked by the above-named… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Mar 2015 The Gospel and Prisons image above: christianlifemissions.org WN: I wrote this several years ago. A very brief touching on biblical prison abolitionism. An excerpt:… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2024 Palestine: The Ultimate Maximum Security Prison PLEASE NOTE: In response to the film and material below, I received this from a friend, Dr. Loren Wilkinson: I… Editor No Comments
Blog Attendees came from 18 different nations. 08 Apr 2024 Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018 At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jan 2024 An African gulag so ghastly that inmates risk death to escape By Katharine Houreld January 6, 2024 image above: WN: Fyodor Dostoevsky and others variously have said: "The degree of civilization… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2023 Theories on the Psychology of Violence WN: I met the author of the presentation below at a COV&R (Colloquium on Violence and Religion) Conference.I recall a… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2023 A Tribute to My Longstanding Friend and Colleague Jim Wilson by M2W2 Staff | Jul 10, 2023 WN: Jim Wilson and I were hired at the same time in January… Editor No Comments
Blog “We put God right at the center of the White House.” —Paula White, speaking at an Evangelicals for Trump event at Solid Solid Rock Church, Ohio, March 6, 2020 25 Mar 2023 Comments On: Amazing Disgrace By Sarah Posner Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with this hugely ironic quote, one… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Mar 2023 Christian Pacifism and Its Cultured Naysayers ***NOTE 1: Many footnotes add detail and background to the text.*** ***NOTE 2: The PDF academic version is here.*** WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2023 While locked up in a U.S. prison, Jesse Krimes secretly created epic works of art Feb 15, 2023 image above: While serving five years in a U.S. federal prison, Jesse Krimes created elaborate works of… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jan 2023 State Terror: Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame Jan. 27, 2023 By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist image above: Protesters gather in NYC’s Union Square Friday night after… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Sep 2022 Trump’s Messiah Scam Increases His Threat To America September 23, 2022 thomhartmann image above: Pete Linforth from Pixabay WN: The author of the article highlighted below consciously or… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jun 2022 Opinion A question for those who say more faith will prevent gun violence: How? By Kate Cohen Contributing columnist |June 27, 2022 image above: Handguns for sale at a store in Greeley, Pa., on… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jun 2022 Response To: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos by Isobel Thompson June 21, 2022 image above: Ben Jones/The Guardian WN: This is a worldwide story repeated since the… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jun 2022 Thoughts on: It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore. June 6, 2022 by Kim Phuc Phan Thi Ms. Phan Thi is the founder of the Kim Foundation International, which… 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 26 Feb 2022 Liz Theoharis, The Rise of White Christian Nationalism: Which Way America? By Liz Theoharis Liz Theoharis, a TomDispatch regular, is a theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist. Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Nov 2021 All the Lawyers Who Stood Between Ahmaud Arbery and Justice Pilar Melendez November 24, 2021 photo above: groyourwealth.com WN: An enormous tragedy . . . A muted victory . .… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2021 Walter Wink & “The Myth of Redemptive Violence” November 8, 2021 by Robert Koehler WN: The author of the highlighted article below is right on. For background to… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2021 How America Fractured Into Four Parts By George Packer July/August 2021 Issue The Atlantic image above: Lucy Jones WN: Wow! The essay is stunning as it… Editor 2 Comments
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 05 Sep 2021 9/11 was a test: Essay by Carlos Lozada Illustration above: by Patrik Svensson Sept. 3, 2021 WN: Below are excerpts from an outstanding essay… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.((See here also.)) All are rife… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2021 War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld Found Dead at 88 by Phyllis Bennis July 1, 2021 photo above: Then-US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld addresses a press conference at the… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jun 2021 Canada’s Solitary Confinement Deemed “Torture”: WN: Please consider signing the petition begun today. After nearly fifty years of work in Canada's Criminal Justice System, and… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 May 2021 Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS By Adnan R. Khan May 11, 2021 photo above: Spec Ops Magazine WN: In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR),… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Apr 2021 Opinion: Prolonged solitary confinement is torture. It’s time for all states to ban it. Opinion by Tammie Gregg and Donna Lieberman April 28, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. PDT image above: Julie Lai for The Washington… 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 08 Apr 2021 Dianne Tramutola-Lawson–Class of ’60 WN: Dianne is one of the amazing volunteers in charge of Colorado CURE. Please enjoy this brief interview: You may… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Apr 2021 Former inmate taps into her prison experience for ‘groundbreaking’ PhD research CBC Radio · Posted: Sep 24, 2020 6:07 PM ET | Last Updated: March 3 photo above: Prison For Women,… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Mar 2021 Restorative Justice: Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice: Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform by Wayne Northey for The Kenarchy Journal, Volume 2. image above: cccu.org PLEASE NOTE: Below are excerpts of my paper… 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 20 Nov 2020 RCMP Perpetuates Misogynistic, Homophobic And Racist Culture: Report 11/19/2020 By Samantha Beattie photo above: Jeff McIntosh/THE CANADIAN PRESS WN: My short response to the current Commissioner: She does… Editor No Comments
Blog BAYONNE, NJ - MAY 3: A wind blown American flag at the Tear Drop 9/11 Memorial flies over the skyline of New York City as the sun sets on May 3, 2020 in Bayonne, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) 16 Aug 2020 The Unraveling of America by Wade Davis August 6, 2020 Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the… 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 30 May 2020 Black Toronto residents 20 times more likely to be shot dead by police, study says Black people made up 61% of cases where police used force that resulted in death, Ontario human rights commission report… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Dec 2019 Punishment and Prison Bibliography Patrick S. O'Donnell WN: This is an outstanding Bibliography! The author explains: From 2000-2015, I was an adjunct instructor 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 26 Jul 2019 Imperialist Made Crisis of Migrants and Refugees For the last 18 years, since the new era of war and occupation began, there has been no end to… 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 Church of Holy Sepulchre 14 May 2019 Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen photo above: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem WN: Randy… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2019 On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal Trudeau tried to pressure justice minister to cut deal… 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 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 11 Jan 2019 Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics “All I’m saying is don’t act like the way… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Dec 2018 Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Polling A new Washington Post Fact Checker poll Take… Editor No Comments
24 Sep 2018 Justice That Transforms — Book Series First 3 Volumes Fall 2018; Volume One Republished January 2020; two more projected late 2023 SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are… Editor
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 04 Jul 2018 Enough Bombs Bursting in Air. We Need to Love One Another. By William Rivers Pitt Truthout, Published July 4, 2018 WN: I love it when people not necessarily in the faith… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2017 How “Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantánamo” Opens Up the Horrors of Torture Thursday, 27 July 2017 06:37 ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT photo above: As Guantánamo remains open and the… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 May 2017 ‘Death row nun’ explains why she does it Sister Prejean tells prisoners they’re worth more than their crimes By Agnieszka Krawczynski of The B.C. Catholic Wednesday, 10 May… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 May 2017 Select Bibliography of Key Restorative Justice Works Select Bibliography of Key Restorative Justice Works Compiled by Wayne Northey WN: Today, I updated a bibliography, especially weighted towards… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Mar 2017 Palestinian Women – One for All, All for One Editor: We are proud that Samah, one of the women profiled in the article below [click on Palestinian Women] from International Women's Day… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Feb 2017 Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The China Missile Crisis of 2018? Posted by Rajan Menon at 5:11pm, February 12, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: “We’re Going to War… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jan 2017 Diving into an Ocean of Gratitude for Living and Caring with Patch Adams January 17, 2017 Not only is the posting by Jarem Sawatsky about Patch Adams wonderful. The link on which you… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2016 No, Everything Is Not Going to Be Alright Published on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Common Dreams By Ted Rall photo above: 'Trump’s fascism,' writes Rall, 'will come… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2016 United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015 The document linked below is outstanding! It is nothing less… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Oct 2016 Ontario — Stop torturing Adam Capay Right now Adam Capay sits in solitary confinement with the lights blaring above his plexiglass cell 24 hours a day,… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2016 Special Investigation: My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard by Shane Bauer July/August 2016 issue of Mother Jones This is a highly poignant story, at once courageous and deeply… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Aug 2016 Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (C.U.R.E.) Upcoming World Conference Human Rights and Prison Reform Seventh International CURE Conference April 25-29, 2017, San Jose, Costa Rica, Courtyard… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Jul 2016 Labor Organizing Across Israel’s Apartheid Line: An Interview With Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir photo above: A person stands by the partition wall separating Israel and Palestine. (Photo: 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 07 Jun 2016 War Crimes in a Punitive Age 2 May 2016 Joseph Margulies photo above: Joseph Margulies an excerpt: Do you want to know the real problem with… 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 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 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
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Mr. Harper, But Emperor Bush Has Nothing on At All!!! By Wayne Northey Stephen Harper is a scary man. He is at best sycophant, at worst dupe, of the confidence… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Secret World of US Jails By Jason Burke The Observer U.K. An excerpt: The United States government, in conjunction with key allies, is running an… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Militarism Leads to Torture By Scott Galindez image above: Revealed: Senate report contains new details on CIA black sites WN: There is no Empire known… Editor No Comments
13 Jun 2014 Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America Barry Hankins, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008, 272 pp. An excerpt: Barry Hankins allows irenically that Schaeffer’s “arguments have not stood… Editor
Blog Original Cinema Quad Poster - Movie Film Posters 29 Apr 2014 WAR AND HELL – and Exception-Clause Footnote Theology WN: War and Hell is an interactive essay with a movie and a book. The movie: Saving Private Ryan. The… 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
