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Published in: HomeEssential Reading on the US Prison-Industrial Complex
Three must-reads on prison and race in America
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky (part 2)
Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: HomePsychedelic Nostalgia: Barlow on the early days of LSD
Former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow's reminiscences on the introduction of LSD to the American consciousness.
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Published in: HomeThe Crime of Being Poor: Class and Criminal Justice in America
A U.S. prisoner named Paul Wright has penned an extraordinary essay on the role of class in the American criminal...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky: an interview with Jamison Firestone (part 1)
Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: HomeA Virulent Outbreak of Rational Thought
Two UK based organizations are charting a course through the miasma of international drug policy by publishing...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhen they said ‘We will end child detention,’ they meant ‘Keep on arresting babies’
Children are still being detained in the UK immigration system.
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Published in: Shine A LightSamaranch, Kissinger and the Coca Cola company: a relentless fascist’s curious date with democracy
Clare Sambrook recalls the day Juan Antonio Samaranch, the leader of the 'Olympic Movement' who died last month,...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentence
The death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...
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Published in: HomeThe bizarre universe of drug prohibition: an introduction to the oD Drug Policy Forum
International drug policy is at a tipping point. Emerging from a forty year repressive dark age following the...
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Published in: Shine A LightLet’s make sure they really do end child detention now
If they mean the immediate closure of Yarl's Wood, that should be a cause for great rejoicing. This is why we must...
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Published in: Shine A LightGordon Brown on child detention
An exchange between the Prime Minister and campaigners on the question of child detention
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Published in: Shine A LightElection time: asylum seekers lose their last safety net
When terrified men, women and children are being shunted off to countries where they face real and imminent risk of...
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Published in: Shine A LightSurveillance + detention = £Billions: How Labour’s friends are ‘securing your world’
The rapid rise of the security industry with its close links to government has disturbing implications for our freedom.
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Published in: oDRThe rise and fall of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Does a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was...
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Published in: Shine A LightHas Meg Hillier gone mad?
The Home Office minister is in la la land over child detention.
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s judicial system reformable?
In this interview for oDRussia, Prof.Alena Ledeneva talks to Oliver Carroll about the prospects for judicial reform...