Link to details from Gallagher Blogs: “Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage—Free Online Course” “Stephen Bright is president and senior counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights, a…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
…and unusual punishment. Tofurkey Producer Sues Texas over Labeling Laws The makers of Tofurkey, Turtle Island Foods, is an Oregon company that produces plant-based products. They have filed a suit…
Cops and Librarians: Two Views of Creative Punishment
…(I have great neighbor kids 🙂 Here is one type of creative punishment that’s been in the news lately – the Portland police officer who gives speeders a choice: a…
Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution: You Decide.
The Columbia Human Rights Law Review (publisher of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual) presents the evidence in its website publication of: “An Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution,” including…
Oregon CURE: Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants
I just learned about Oregon’s CURE: Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants About: “CURE History: “CURE was formally constituted as a non-profit organization in 1975 in San Antonio,…
Oregon’s Reluctant Executioner (BBC News Outlook)
Radio doesn’t get any better than BBC’s World Service program Outlook. Listen to the “The Reluctant Death Row Executioner” episode as Frank Thompson, formerly in charge of the…
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #6 (Bill of Rights, 32-39)
…otherwise than as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.– [Added to Bill of Rights as unnumbered section by vote of the people at time…
Solitary Confinement Report (from LLRX)
Research guide on Solitary Confinement, by Ken Strutin, August 10, 2010: Excerpt from introduction: “Solitary confinement is the most extreme penalty in the hierarchy of incarcerative punishment. 1 Depending…
Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates
…to spread cheap reprints of popular sheet music. In the 1950s, a pirate music label named Jolly Roger issued recordings by Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats from LP’s that…
Lock ’em up and throw away the key – A Book Reading
Another book reading to attend (I last blogged about one here): Sasha Abramsky, author of “American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment,” will be…
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