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Silja Talvi

Silja J.A. Talvi is an investigative journalist and senior editor for In These Times.

Talvi's work has appeared in a wide variety newspapers and magazines nationwide, as well as several book anthologies including Body Outlaws (Seal Press, 2004, 3rd edition), Prison Nation (Rutgers, 2002), and Prison Profiteers (The New Press, 2007).

In 2006, Talvi was awarded a national New American Ethnic Media award for immigration-related reporting, as well as her second consecutive national PASS award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.

She is also the recipient of twelve regional Pacific Northwest SPJ awards for excellence in journalism. Born in Helsinki, Finland, Talvi is currently based in Seattle, where she is finishing a book about women and incarceration (Seal Press/Avalon).

Currently

  • Incarceration Nation

    January 5, 2007

    America now leads the world in the number of people behind bars. But hope is emerging that state governments and the courts will seek to hold back the hand of the carceral state.

2006

  • Erasing Whiteness

    March 22, 2006

    If women expect to shed the cruel and calculating artifice of race in our lifetimes, we must contribute to the emerging generation of literature that deconstructs racial categories.

2003

2002

  • The Other War

    December 24, 2002

    The drug war is our problem, and it demands our attention every bit as much as those fought on foreign soil.

  • Prison's Shameful Secret

    September 9, 2002

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 7/21/08
This week: A look at the advocacy group MoveOn.org at 10. Plus: Controversy in Africa over the indictment of the Sudanese President; Amy Alexander and Chris Rabb on the challenges facing minority journalists in their transition to the web; and The Nation's new sex column. (13mb mp3)

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