Slavery by another name--Prison Labor

http://www.truth-out.org/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor/1312553212

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/16/ca-prisoners-reject-state-offer-as-inmate-hunger-strike-enters-3rd-week/

Forty years in solitary

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/07/u-s-inmates-40-years-in-solitary-must-end-amnesty/

Swinging door between prison management and private prison industry.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/federal-prison-director-takes-job-private-prison-company

For women in California prisons: Death, abuse, indignity and one roll of toilet paper a month.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/california-women-prisons_n_871125.html?ir=Politics

“if our nation were to return to the rates of incarceration we had in the 1970s, we would have to release four out of five people behind bars.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/160978/michelle-alexander-californias-cruel-and-unusual-prisons

Thirty years of Failure; California's Failed Penal System

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/california-prison-legislation_n_868326.html

Heroin tacos. Yum.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/20/texas-police-deputy-jailed-for-delivery-of-heroin-tacos/

Slavery, pure and simple

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/09/974443/-Slave-Labor,-Prison-Privatization,-Prison-IndustryALEC-Conservatives-push-this-agenda-nationwide!?via=sidebyuserrec