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...
Donald Trump, at the start of both his first and second terms, said that he would order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to clean up its act in the area of prison health care. Trump also pledged to push states to improve health care in their prison systems. That has...
In this interview, Randy speaks with Estelle Dehon, public law barrister at Cornerstone Barristers, as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears in the Westminster Magistrates Court, London for an administrative hearing relating to his extradition to the United States. Assange has been kept in prison since April 2019, when he...
Oklahoma’s Bible-quoting Governor Kevin Stitt seems to think there’s nothing wrong with what is going on, and uses every bit of his duly constituted governmental power to see that abuses continue The son of a pastor, Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt quotes from biblical verses in his speeches and presents...
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. Part One: Alicia Castro and Martin Stolar Alicia Castro, currently Argentina’s ambassador to the Russian Federation, first met Julian Assange in London,...
The summer of 2013 was my first summer in prison after being incarcerated for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. When summer arrived in Loretto, Pennsylvania, I had already made a handful of friends, most of whom came from the prison’s “Italian” population. One warm day in the...
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...
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...
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, featuring regular updates from the Courage Foundation’s Nathan Fuller. In this 6th installment, Randy speaks with Assange's legal advisor Renata Avila,...
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...