Prosecutors don’t get promoted by offering shorter sentences
Like many Americans, I follow criminal justice developments closely. The arrest and coming prosecution of Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy, among other things, will likely remain in the headlines for months, and perhaps years, and promises to be fascinating. Prosecutions...
U.S. Leads the World in Solitary Confinement that Destroys Prisoners Mental Health
John Kiriakou - 0
Anthony Gay is severely mentally ill. And like many Americans who suffer from severe mental illness and who commit a crime, he was placed in solitary confinement after his conviction, rather than in a mental hospital where he could have received treatment for his schizophrenia.
Isolated in a six-by-ten foot...
Whistleblowers and their Warriors – Episode 10 of Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom
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Listen to the latest episode of Randy Credico’s acclaimed radio show Live on the Fly. This series entitled “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom” is an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder.
Who’s Who on Episode 10 of Live on the Fly
Jesselyn Radack heads the...
While U.S. Leaders Moralize About Alleged Human Rights Abuses in Russia and China To Justify Proxy Wars, Prisoners in the U.S. Routinely Suffer From Inhumane Treatment
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A Miami Prisoner is Among Those Who Believe That U.S. Prison Authorities Are Trying to Kill Them
While U.S. leaders denounce Russia and China, and other official enemies for alleged human rights violations daily, they are silent about the massive human rights abuses that occur routinely in the U.S. prison...
Exclusive Interviews with Nils Melzer, Lauri Love and John Kiriakou on Assange: Countdown to Freedom
Randy Credico - 2
In this extraordinary fifth installment of "Live on the Fly - Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom," Randy Credico speaks with Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and professor at Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; Lauri Love, who successfully avoided extradition to the U.S.; and...
U.S. school kids, hospital patients, and prison inmates share food poisoning, while food liquidators boast they turn “trash into treasure.”
Operating in the shadows is easy in the United States secondary food market, as few question what happens to food that exceeds its expiration date in leading supermarket chains...
What happened at Assange’s extradition trial? Eyewitness reports from Julian’s father and others on Assange: Countdown to Freedom
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Listen to the latest episode of Randy Credico’s acclaimed radio show “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom,” an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder.
Fits into dubious history of medical coercion and experimentation on vulnerable populations in the U.S.
Two Democratic members of the Massachusetts state legislature have proposed a bill that would give state prisoners between 60 and 365 days off their sentences if they donate a kidney, bone marrow, skin, or “other...
“The Death Row You Don’t Want to Know:” An Inmate at San Quentin Reveals What Death Row is Really Like
James P. Anderson - 8
From the date of being arrested (March 4, 1979) in one of the most racist counties in California (Riverside), and enduring one of what would be called by many, “a circus trial” on December 12, 1979, I was brought to the sixth floor of North Block, better known as...
Donald Trump has a lot of faults. God knows that we have discussed them at length here at CovertAction Magazine and in other venues.
But if there is one thing that Trump is right on, it is prison reform. It was Trump, after all, who issued a flurry of pardons...










