Under the leadership of Republican Governor Rick Scott and a GOP-controlled legislature, Florida has embarked on a massive push for the privatization of prison healthcare services. Most recently, the Florida Department of Corrections awarded a $1.2 billion, five-year contract to Corizon, a Tennessee-based prison healthcare provider that began serving 41 correctional facilities in August. This […]
Author / Rania Khalek
(See drone update at the bottom) House Republicans are heartless assholes for shutting down the government over a healthcare reform law that isn’t even affected by the shutdown. But the people in charge of determining what gets funded and what gets axed in the event of a shutdown are proving to be even bigger monsters.
Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ordered the state to “immediately release” Herman Wallace from custody, according to his legal team. Wallace, who is dying of liver cancer and has just days to live, has served over 40 years in solitary confinement for the […]
On May 8, a Volusia County deputy in Florida tried to pull over Marlon Brown, a 38-year-old father of two, for allegedly failing to wear a seatbelt while driving. When Brown fled on foot, Deland police cruisers chased after him, even though they are not supposed to chase suspects for minor offenses. When Brown cut through a […]
Rafiq ur Rehman and his two children, 9-year-old Nebila and 13-year-old Zubiar, are from the tribal regions of north Waziristan, an area of Pakistan that has been devastated by US drone strikes. Last year, Rafiq’s children were injured by a drone strike that also killed his 67-year-old mother (the children’s grandmother), Mamana. Rafiq’s story is featured […]
There isn’t a problem in the world that Rep. Peter King (R-NY) can’t solve by spying on minorities and that includes the threat posed by Al-Shabab, the Somalia based terrorist group that carried out a horrific massacre in an upscale shopping center in Kenya over the weekend. As former chairman of the congressional Homeland Security Committee, […]
Last night, House Republicans passed a bill that cuts $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, one of the few safety nets available to the 47 million Americans living below the poverty line. Nevertheless, a majority of our elected representatives seem to view food as a luxury that the […]
In the Public Interest (ITPI) released a damning report that reveals an overwhelming majority of contracts between for-profit prisons and local governments include “lockup quotas” and “low crime taxes”, language that basically guarantees a profit. Sixty-five percent of the 62 private prison contracts ITPI analyzed included bed occupancy guarantees—whereby the state promises to keep 80 to […]
As conditions continue to deteriorate for Syrian refugees, appeals for humanitarian aid are growing louder. Meanwhile, the countries most involved in fueling the violence inside Syria are the least willing to help alleviate the crisis.
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