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...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...
...Jenkins' plan to find a way back to the U.S. proved, of course, to be folly-a realization that dawned on him almost immediately. In a statement read by his lawyer, Captain James Culp, Jenkins described in detail the prison state in which he wound up living for almost 40 years. Rather than being treated as a trophy, Jenkins said, his first 15 years in North Korea were an almost unrelenting hell, where hunger, cold, and physical and psychological abuse were constant companions. For the first seven years, he shared a one-room house with no running water and unreliable...
...respected Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found the second-most popular leader after Yasser Arafat to be Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti, of course, is unlikely to be a contender right now, for the simple reason that he's serving five consecutive life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role in the current intifada. But if no Palestinian leader will ever recapture the national mystique and symbolic power of Arafat, the next best campaign biography may be to pass the treacherous post-Arafat years outside the fray in an Israeli prison...
...second case, Johnson v. California, involves racial segregation. For a society that seems so far beyond the problems that plagued the civil rights era, one would think that this case would provoke public astonishment. Instead, it seems to have fallen through the cracks. California’s prison system assigns cellmates based on race for the first 60 days in prison, apparently to reduce conflicts and gang violence until a permanent prison can be found. Though the Ninth Circuit Court believes that the system would be found unconstitutional if it were employed in situations and institutions in other areas...
...circulating, which misleads, “If you’ve voted in any election this year, you can’t vote in the presidential election.” The flier continues, “If you violate any of these laws, you can get ten years in prison and your children will get taken away from you.” A spokesman from the Wisconsin Republican Party called the fliers “appalling” but asked whether Democratic interest groups might be behind them to drum up outrage and turnout...