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Jails and PrisonsSeptember 9, 2011
The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later
When inmates at Attica took over the prison in September of 1971, they were fighting for their basic rights. But their demands were ultimately met with tear gas and bullets.
Francis Reynolds and Liliana Segura
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Jails and PrisonsSeptember 9, 2011
The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later
When inmates at Attica took over the prison in September of 1971, they were fighting for their basic rights. But their demands were ultimately met with tear gas and bullets.
Francis Reynolds and Liliana Segura
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Jails and PrisonsSeptember 7, 2011
Attica at 40
Four decades after the bloodiest prison massacre in US history, we have yet to accept the basic fact that prisoners are human.
Liliana Segura
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ActivismJuly 14, 2011
Support the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers
The prisoners’ list of “demands” should concern anyone who believes in basic human rights for prisoners.
Liliana Segura
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Jails and PrisonsJune 1, 2011
‘Cruel & Unusual’ Prisons
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, talks to Liliana Segura about the Supreme Court ruling on overcrowding in California prisons.
Liliana Segura
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Jails and PrisonsMay 26, 2011
Michelle Alexander on California’s ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Prisons
The author of The New Jim Crow says that it will take a grassroots movement to tackle our country’s addiction to mass incarceration.
Liliana Segura
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Death PenaltyMay 12, 2011
The Executioner’s Dilemma
Because of a lethal injection drug shortage, some death penalty states have started tinkering with the drug cocktail used in the procedure. But in their rush to kill inmates, are officials breaking the law?
Liliana Segura
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Death PenaltyMarch 29, 2007
Prosecutors and the Death Penalty
As the US Attorney purge scandal intensifies, new light is shed on federal prosecutors’ struggles with the Justice Department over the death penalty.
Liliana Segura
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Foreign PolicyMarch 12, 2007
Bush Amigo’s Para Pals
Revelations of Colombian government collusion with paramilitary thugs ought to put the damper on President Bush’s Latin American tour.
Liliana Segura
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Foreign PolicyNovember 2, 2005
Changing the Electoral Game in Colombia
In a landmark ruling, Colombia’s Constitutional Court has allowed President Alvaro Uribe to seek a second term. That’s good news for the Bush Administration, which considers Uribe a staunch ally. But others in Colombia are not so sure.
Liliana Segura