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...
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...
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...
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...
The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails.
The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement.
Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism...
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.
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...
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...
In this second episode of Live on the Fly - Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom, Randy Credico delivers an exclusive interview with the legendary documentarian John Pilger—a man whose searing vision and crusading exposés of government greed, hypocrisy, tyranny, injustice, poverty and heartbreak have fired the passions and...
In this fourth installment of "Live on the Fly - Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom," Randy Credico speaks with Stefania Maurizi, a trailblazing investigative journalist who has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy.
Nathan Fuller...
