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...unemployment rate for black men is estimated between 30 and 60%, and black people are seven times more likely to go to prison that white people. The greatest crime of all is that our politicians and policymakers can look at these numbers and persist in the ignorant and unjust policies that brought them about...

Author: By Rachel M Singh | Title: Mass Incarcerations Causing Massive Problems | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...actually hurting our state. Double bunking is exactly the sort of short term solution that will sustain the problem of mass incarceration. As long as we keep building more prisons, hiring more correctional officers, and cramming more inmates in cells built for one, we condone a flawed and unjust legal system. Politicians seem to think it is working, when all the evidence, from the inner city to within the prisons themselves, points to the contrary. But why is this specific policy is so harmful? In addition to being symptomatic of our government’s complicity...

Author: By Rachel M Singh | Title: Mass Incarcerations Causing Massive Problems | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...website as "just a fun-natured project" through which people are "able to express their outrage over the war and what has transpired in Iraq because of the Bush Administration ... We don't condone addressing your adversaries in any violent means, but in this case, when we feel an unjust war was waged, we certainly are empathetic toward the journalist who expressed his anger and frustration in this way." (A disclaimer on the site says, "We do not condone shoe-throwing, but we prefer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thank You for Throwing Your Shoe | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...offenders after prison release, and affects pedophiles for their entire lives. Such laws holds pedophiles accountable for their past actions, and thus are inconsistent with the notion that pedophilia is simply a mental disorder that can be overcome. For, if pedophilia could be medically cured, it would be unjust for such clinically reformed individuals to be legally identified as a potential public threat. Essentially, administering a “cure” like chemical castration utterly subverts the entire modern interpretation and treatment of pedophilia...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Human Rights for the Inhuman | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

...Although it is more appropriate to punish than to cure pedophilia, the use of chemical castration as a punishment is vastly unjust. As a member of the EU, Poland has a responsibility to maintain a legal system that respects human rights—even those of criminal pedophiles. Yet even those in positions of power have failed to fulfil this responsibility. In September, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, “I don’t think you can call such individuals—such creatures—human beings. I don’t think you can talk...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Human Rights for the Inhuman | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

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