Busting Out: Ten Things Citizens Can Do to Reduce Rates of Incarceration
“The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prisoners”
25 Days In Federal Prison For Littering? Border Patrol Cracking Down on Human Rights Activists
On Friday December 4th, an Arizona District Court judge told Walt Staton, a 28 year-old seminary student, that he might be facing 25 days in a federal prison. His crime was “knowingly littering” along the U.S.-Mexico border…<more>
A Chance at Justice Denied: Rape Kits in America Go Untested
“After he let me live I wished he killed me.”
Such were Debbie Smith’s words after describing a rape she endured nearly 20 years ago when a masked man abducted her from her home and took her to a nearby woods where he repeatedly raped her.
Early this week, Smith took to Capitol Hill to share her story with a Senate panel in an attempt to urge them to eliminate the startling backlog of untested rape kits in the U.S.
Exactly how many rape kits are we talking about? <more>
