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According to a 2002 U.S. Justice Department report, 6.7 million people in the U.S. were under “correctional supervision”—prison, jail, parole or probation—nearly four times as many people as in 1980. It is estimated that, on any day, upwards of one-third of black men in their twenties face this reality. With black women as the fastest growing prison population in the United States, perhaps similar statistics may not be too far behind. Our politicians speak of the success of the need to be “tough...
...limitations on a related bribery charge, implying some degree of guilt. The sunny skies lasted for less than 18 hours before a Palermo court brought some rain by convicting Berlusconi's longtime confidant Marcello Dell'Utri of colluding with the Mafia, and sentenced him to nine years in prison. Dell'Utri was a key executive for Berlusconi's business empire and helped form the Prime Minister's Forza Italia party; he will appeal the verdict. Berlusconi wasn't implicated in the case, but the verdict is a blow...
...that you should get a job and you should be secure, that’s especially true of your mother (but she’ll come around), and the only thing you have to regret is spending the years 22 to 25 of your life locked up in a prison, in some cubicle, which I do,” says Snyder...
...justice, too, presses down on Vera Drake. By the end of the film, it is not just women as a social category who must live without freedom but Vera herself, forced to exchange liberty for captivity and the ultimate sort of crowdedness—that of a prison...
...security personnel to prevail in a violent confrontation with the militias. Abbas's preferred method has been to negotiate cease-fire agreements with Hamas - and to the extent that he has succeeded, at least temporarily, in the past, he has relied largely on the efforts of Barghouti, from his prison cell, to bring the militants of both Hamas and Fatah on board. A rival candidacy which urges the militants to vote against Abbas by painting him as a man who will sell Palestinians short may undermine prospects for a new cease-fire...