In May, the Institute on Women and Criminal Justice released a report on the growth of the number of women in prison in the U.S.
Prison
Jeshua Erickson 7-01-2006
Bob Ekblad has been reading the Bible with people who live on the margins—Chicano gang members, prison inmates, and undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States, among others
Glenn Kumekawa 6-01-2006
A Japanese-American internment camp survivor reflects on Guantanamo and the state of the U.S. Constitution.
James Ferguson 3-01-2006
There are currently 7 million adults under correctional supervision in the United States, 1.6 million more than in 1995, according to a recent Department of Justice report. The majority are ineligible to vote. Marc Mauer, assistant director of The Sentencing Project, told Sojourners that laws that prevent convicted felons from voting could “skew the electorate in many states, [with] many elections decided by felony disenfranchisement.” He cited as an example the 2000 presidential race in Florida.
Tom Montgomery-Fate 2-01-2006
The remarkable thing about Renny Golden’s writing is that it provides a bridge of understanding between a silenced, disenfranchised community and those who need to hear what that community
Holly Liebowitz Rossi 1-01-2005
The Amachi program gives people of faith the tools they need to make a difference for inmates' children.
Rose Marie Berger, Brian Bolton 6-01-2004
Rabiye Kurnaz (center), mother of German Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz, came to Washington, D.C., in March to join British and French families of detainees who shared stories of anguish over the treatment of their relatives. "Can the U.S. government legitimately claim that the continuing
Rose Marie Berger, Brian Bolton 4-01-2004
It's On Me. Canada has cancelled the $750 million debt owed it by Iraq to help put the war-torn country on a "better foundation" for economic development.
Jens Soring 9-01-2003
What a Department of Corrections shotgun pellet taught me about centering prayer.
Kristin Ohlson 1-01-2003
Women's Re-entry Network in Cleveland is like many nonprofits—it is financially pinched and has a big-hearted but overworked staff that struggles to meet the needs of its clients.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 3-01-2002
Did you see the recent Essence article about Dorothy Gaines? Or the Mademoiselle piece on Kellie Mann? Both women were convicted of minor nonviolent drug offenses.
David Whettstone 7-01-2001
Jesus on the cross is best viewed as what that event concretely was, an imperial execution," says Mark Lewis Taylor in The Executed God.
Rachel Spaght 11-01-2000
An experimental summer camp brings children together with their dads--in prison.
Raymond E. Williams 7-01-2000
My heart began to beat wildly; my mouth was as dry as the desert around me. Should I take time to go change my shirt?
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 5-01-2000
The U.S. prison population passed the two million mark in February, provoking vigils and protests in more than 40 U.S. cities.
Hans Hallundbaek 3-01-1999
A remarkable new "seminary-behind-walls" program at Sing Sing prison helps to rebuild lives and offer hope.
Julio Medina 3-01-1999
I could not escape the still, silent voice that gnawed at the core of my soul. It followed me wherever I went.