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The rally quickly dissolved into chaos as student organizers lost control of non-Harvard protestors who joined the demonstration. The sound of shattering glass reverberated through the courtyard, panicking the crowds gathered there. According to an article written at the time, students blockaded Hoppenstein in the Lowell House Common Room...
Supermax prisons, which are designed to hold prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, are ineffective, expensive, and detrimental to mental health, surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande said during a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday.
“But solitary confinement in our state prisons is the legalized torture of our own people within our own communities.”
The inequities are easy to see among the suspects who were arrested on piracy charges and are now being held in Kenyan prisons. They are generally illiterate young men who have no say in the operations they join and don't even know how much ransom is paid for the...
As President Obama struggles to pass healthcare reform in the U.S., Europe has worked hard to make health insurance part of "the basic social contract." The human-rights vision of the Council of Europe has also led to the abolition of the death penalty in all 47 member states. It...