WeAreChange | Before entering the New Jersey courthouse to face his sentencing on March 18, 2013, Andrew Auernheimer (Weev) gave a short speech to the press and to his friends. Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by three years supervised release.... - [More]

Posted: March 21, 2013 in Videos

“Anybody can be a guard. It’s harder to be on guard against the impulse to be sadistic, cause it’s a quiet rage.” The quiet Sunday morning of August 14, 1971, was broken by the wail of sirens as the Palo Alto, California police swept through town arresting nine people. The suspects were handcuffed, read their rights and subjected to the degradation of the booking process after being transported to the Stanford County Prison (SCP). So began the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), one of the most important psychology experiments in this country’s history.... - [More]

Posted: April 21, 2012 in Documentary

RjWeapon | The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality” -HL Mencken... - [More]

Posted: September 27, 2011 in Videos

SherryPeelJackson.org | Most Americans have been taught to think that everyone in prison is guilty of something.  I have met many people, before and during prison, that are adamant that anyone in a jail or prison cell “must have done something wrong”.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In my experience, filtering out the obvious liars, at least 20% of the women that I talked to in prison were innocent, and at least another 10% were guilty of something, but the sentence didn’t fit the “crime”.... - [More]

Posted: September 24, 2011 in Articles

Stefbot | Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College. He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology; published articles on innovative teaching methods and alternative approaches to education; and is author of Psychology (Worth Publishers), an introductory college textbook now in its 6th edition. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current research and writing focuses primarily on children’s natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. His own play includes not only his research and writing, but also long distance bicycling, kayaking, back-woods skiing, and vegetable gardening.... - [More]

Posted: August 26, 2011 in Videos

TokeOfTheTown.com | Have you ever wanted to go into a courtroom and honestly tell the judge and prosecutor what you think of their marijuana laws?” Walker asked on the Facebook page, “Dana Goes to Jail!”... - [More]

Posted: July 30, 2011 in Articles

Men and women who spoke out against the first World War were punished. Their families were torn apart. In Montana, scores of people were convicted of sedition, merely for criticizing the war effort or for refusing to prove their loyalty by buying war bonds. Some were sent to prison for up to 20 years, another was lynched on the spot.... - [More]

Posted: July 19, 2011 in Documentary

PrisonerHungerStrikeSolidarity | It is important for readers to understand the cruelty of the policy sanctioned by the state that allows the CDCR to place men/women under an indeterminate SHU program only on the word of a prison informer—where there is no offense, no violence, nor any gang or criminal activity. Yet prisoners who are held in indeterminate SHU are held, well, indefinitely—for the rest of their lives in SHUs and Adjustment Centers across the state, and even on Death Row if validated as a gang member.... - [More]

Posted: July 8, 2011 in Articles

Truth-Out.org | Seventeen-year-old Hillary Transue did what lots of 17-year-olds do: Got into mischief. Hillary’s mischief was composing a MySpace page poking fun at the assistant principal of the high school she attended in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Hillary was an honor student who’d never had any trouble with the law before. And her MySpace page stated clearly that the page was a joke. But despite all that, Hilary found herself charged with harassment. She stood before a judge and heard him sentence her to three months in a juvenile detention facility.... - [More]

Posted: July 2, 2011 in Articles

WeAllBeTV | The execution of fourteen year old George Stinney Jr. was carried out at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, South Carolina, on June 16, 1944 at 7:30 p.m. George was convicted of murdering two younger white girls with a heavy railroad spike. Standing at 5’1″ and weighing approximately 90 pounds he did not fit into the machinery that was intended for larger adult victims. From the time of the murders until Stinney’s execution, eighty one days had passed. He was the youngest individual executed by the United States justice system in the 20th century.... - [More]

Posted: May 24, 2011 in Videos