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Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex
From today’s New York Times, “A Company That Runs Prisons Will Have Its Name on a Stadium”: Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, firmed a deal to rename its football buildingGEO Group Stadium....
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Millbrook v. US: Holding the Government Accountable for Misconduct by Law...
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”―Thomas Paine At a time when the courts are increasingly giving deference to the police and prioritizing...
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Gutting the Fourth Amendment’s Presumption of Innocence, U.S. Supreme Court...
In a devastating ruling handed down in Maryland v. King, a divided U.S. Supreme Court has approved the practice by police of forcefully obtaining DNA samples from individuals arrested for serious...
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Rutherford Institute Calls on U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Students from...
It’s bad enough that the government thinks it can violate our rights whenever it chooses and the populace accepts all manner of violations as long as they’re told it’s for their own good. However,...
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Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance
“To the degree that we take away play, we deprive children of the ability to practise adulthood, and we create people who will go through life with a sense of dependence and victimisation, a sense...
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The State of Our Nation: The Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms Is the Government
“Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and...
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Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State
“[The aim of public education is not] to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim . . . is simply to reduce as...
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Turning America Into a War Zone, Where ‘We the People’ Are the Enemy
“If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop...
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9-0 U.S. Supreme Court Rules Arkansas Prisons Must Accommodate Religious...
WASHINGTON, DC — In a strong endorsement of religious liberty, the United States Supreme Court has unanimously held that the Arkansas Department of Corrections violated the rights of a Muslim prisoner...
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The Dire State of Our Nation (What You Won’t Hear from the Politicians)
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most...
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Prisons Without Walls: We’re All Inmates in the American Police State
“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives...
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Keeping Government Bureaucrats Off the Backs of the Citizenry: The Supreme...
“No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’.”—Texas Rangers In one swoop, on June 22, 2015, a divided U.S. Supreme Court handed down three consecutive...
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“‘We the Prisoners’: The Demise of the Fourth Amendment” by John W. Whitehead
“Our carceral state banishes American citizens to a gray wasteland far beyond the promises and protections the government grants its other citizens… When the doors finally close and one finds oneself...
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The Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms: A Government of Scoundrels, Spies,...
“There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.”—Lawrence Lessig, Harvard law professor The U.S. government remains the greatest threat to our freedoms. The...
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The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by...
“The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,’ make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old...
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