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...
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...
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...
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...
Listen to the latest episode of Randy Credico’s radio show “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom,” an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder, hosted by CovertAction Magazine and featuring regular updates from the Courage Foundation’s Nathan Fuller.
In this episode, Credico speaks with legendary civil...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
