Tag Archives: prison
In Support of e-Cigarettes
In Support of e-Cigarettes as a Substitute for Tar-Containing Tobacco Cigarettes As a recent convert to e-cigarettes I made a simple test to satisfy what I had known since I was a teenager. If you inhale on a tobacco … Continue reading
Posted in Mind
Tagged cigarette, culture, drugs, e-cigarette, hospital, lung damage, medicine, mental illness, nicotine, prison, prohibition, psychology, science, tobacco, tobacco tar
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Return to the Snake Pit Long have we condemned the mentally ill in our society to counter-therapeutic residence in prisons. Those unable to cope with living in society are subjected to dehumanizing captivity in prisons designed to punish the defenseless … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Mind
Tagged Alienation, cruelty, economics, guilt, innocent, insanity, jail, law, police brutality, prison, psychology, sex, shoe, social sciences, solitary
Sundance Award: “The House I Live In”
The wretched story of race, crack, crime, and how black youth bear the brunt of what is a racially focused crime that singles out black youth. This is a crime with roots in the importation of the crack cocaine phenomenon … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Poli/Econ
Tagged Cocaine, crack, drug abuse, Olliver North, powder cocaine, prison, private prison, racism, Reagan, rock cocaine
