No Jail Time for Lawrence Taylor
January 24, 2011 by Caroline Heldman · 6 Comments
Hall of Fame football linebacker Lawrence Taylor will not spend a day in jail for paying to have sex with a 16-year-old runaway on May 6, 2010. The girl was escorted by her trafficker to Taylor’s ...Read More
Women in Detention Not Protected From Sexual Abuse
August 25, 2010 by Michelle Chen · Leave a Comment
Building on the latest charges of sexual abuse to come out of T. Don Hutto detention center in Texas (which I blogged about here), Human Rights Watch has issued a scathing indictment of Homeland Security’s ...Read More
O Canada: Pay Heed to Tough-on-Crime Policies, Not the National Anthem!
August 20, 2010 by Erica Meiners · 3 Comments
Days after the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, mentioned in his Throne Speech (yes, in Canada that is what it is called) that his government would ask Parliament to potentially change the ...Read More
Government Negligent in Death of Carswell Prison Inmate
June 29, 2010 by Betty Brink · 5 Comments
Linda D’Antuono Fenton, a 34-year-old inmate at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell near Fort Worth, died in 2004 eight days after she was taken comatose from Carswell to the trauma center of a ...Read More
Roman Polanski, the Undetected Rapist?
May 18, 2010 by Jillian Weinberger · 8 Comments
Just two weeks after Roman Polanski issued his first mea culpa to the press since his September 2009 arrest, a new allegation against the award-winning director seeks to ensure his extradition to ...Read More
In Prison, Toilet Paper Is the New Tampon
April 12, 2010 by Maya Schenwar · 17 Comments
A few days ago, I caught NPR’s interview with Piper Kerman, author of the recently released Orange Is the New Black: My Year in Women’s Prison. In the memoir, Kerman describes the handy ...Read More
Prison Rape. Can It Be Stopped?
April 8, 2010 by Betty Brink · 11 Comments
“I was sentenced to spend 18 months in prison as punishment for my crime. Rape was not part of that punishment,” said Marilyn Shirley in testimony before the Prison Rape Elimination Commission, ...Read More
Chelsea King: Life and Death in a Rape Culture
March 18, 2010 by Natalie Wilson · 16 Comments
Of all the news I have heard in relation to the recent sexual assault and murder of Chelsea King, a 17-year-old from my community, one quote keeps reverberating in my mind: “She should not have ...Read More
