Category Archives: Drug wars and the prison system

Book review of “Halfway Home”. What happens after jail

Posted on January 22, 2022 by

Preface.  This book is about what happens to released prisoners. Many of the homeless you see on the street were prisoners who are on the street because landlords won’t rent to them, and their family won’t let them move in … Continue reading →

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Who is Joe Arpaio? His Arizona women’s prisons are reminiscent of Nazi death camps

Posted on July 16, 2018 by

[ You may remember back in August 2017 that President Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio.   But most left out an even bigger reason why he is truly evil: his Arizona women’s tent city prisons.  Below is a description of one from … Continue reading →

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The war on drugs. A book review of “Chasing the scream”

Posted on October 25, 2017 by

Preface. The founder of the War on Drugs in the U.S., Harry Anslinger, wanted to build as large a bureaucracy as possible. But a war on narcotics alone—cocaine and heroin, outlawed in 1914—wasn’t enough. They were used only by a … Continue reading →

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Prison System – 2.2 million in jail, 5 million on parole

Posted on November 18, 2012 by

How  can Americans be so proud of themselves when our society has imprisoned one in a hundred people, more than any other nation on earth?  And many of them subjected to the most cruel kind of torture — isolation — … Continue reading →

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