Everywhere we look, it's Enron, in the biggest tumult over
corporate criminality since the looting of the S&Ls in the 1980s. Enron will
be on the menu for months, if not years. Congress launches into at least
eight separate...
20 January 2002
The disjuncture these days between reality and what one reads in
the press here is pretty much absolute. The other day I opened up the San
Francisco Chronicle and found a piece hailing what the writer described as
something most...
18 January 2002
Delegates from all parts of the U.S. gathered in Washington DC June 15-18 to attend the Education for Peace in Iraq Center’s (EPIC) Iraq Forum and to lobby members of congress to lift economic sanctions and oppose prominent hardliners...
16 January 2002
We are always telling people how the growing prison-
industrial complex (PIC) is all about making money off of prisoners, but we need to understand precisely how this is being done so that we can explain it to the general public and...
16 January 2002
Roughly 30 years ago prison activists
began to promote the concept of
“alternatives to prisons.” The alternatives they had in mind were halfway houses, probation, and other less punitive forms of supervision and rehabilitation. “...
16 January 2002
News media editorials frequently call for an end to the violence in the Middle East
and a return to the peace process by the Palestinians and Israelis. (The
Palestinians call it the “piece” process—While the negotiators talk, the...
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