Torture No Prisoners

Washing State Prison Reform?

          Summary Report by The Washing State Institute for Public Policy Under current long-term forecasts, Washington State faces the need to construct several new prisons in the next two decades. Since new prisons are costly, the 2005 Washington Legislature directed the Washington State Institute for Public Policy to project whether there are “evidence-based” options that…
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NAACP leader challenges Maine prison policies

By LANCE TAPLEY  |  December 10, 2008 Like a movie hero, the NAACP’s new, young national president, Benjamin Jealous, swept into the 900-inmate Maine State Prison in Warren on Monday, quelling protests among the prisoners and, at least temporarily, rescuing the organization’s prison chapter from being snuffed out by state corrections officials. This is the…
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Mass Torture in America

Mass Torture in America And how to stop it By Lance Tapley An address given at the National Lawyers Guild 70th Anniversary Convention in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2007. Some prisoners howl in constant agony. On Halloween, I have a true ghost story to tell: the story of 50,000 ghosts in America, the largely…
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