Given 'The 2005 Licensing (Scotland) Act', it makes sense to reflect on the effect of 'The Act' of 150 years earlier, it said then that, both as regards to the requirements for shutting up public-...
A comprehensive overview of the specific ICRC techniques and procedures used to assess living conditions and treatment of prisoners in places of detention. Presented in a modern, clear format, the ...
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) is the only paper on the British left which regularly reports on and supports the struggles of prisoners within British gaols. For 30 years FRFI has carried ...
The Church of My Faith in God has established The Expungement Reform Movement to propose a resolution that would permit people who have had or those who wish to have expungements the ability to pet...
The Church of My Faith in God has established the letter writing campaign in which you may directly voice your support of the Cleans Slate Expungement Reform Act to the members of the California Le...
Rodney Nelson spent most of his adult life in prison. Though he "graduated" from high school, he could not read, nor could he write well. He was dyxlesic and passed through a school system that did...
The recession is hitting hard at all sectors of society, from the wealthy on Wall Street down to prisoners locked up in the nation’s penal institutions. States are cutting back on prison meals, hop...
And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment
be; thyself hast decided it. — I Kings 20:40
A man must be hard run indeed wh...
Thinking Upstream - A blog about ideas and human rights. Updated with June 2009 links to Cuba news. Based on online news of some of the bloggers and journalists who remain unjustly imprisoned in se...
Oddcube reviews an older pulp classic called The Goddess of Ganymede.
The Goddess of Ganymede, written by some guy called Michael Resnick, was first published in 1967.I found it one time when I ...
A short story about a torturer who has a sudden realisation of his ways when a prisoner of his is presented to him, the only way he feels he can redeem his horrible ways are revealed at the end.
Thinking Upstream - A blog about ideas and human rights, based on online news of some of the bloggers and journalists who remain unjustly imprisoned in several countries. Machine translated to Thai...
Thinking Upstream - A blog about ideas and human rights, based on online news of some of the bloggers and journalists who remain unjustly imprisoned in several countries. At
http://cmcallister.blo...