Hunger Strikes Are All California Prisoners Have

Hunger strikes are all California prisoners have

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“Hunger strikes are the last option for prisoners,” explains Shane Bauer, the journalist whose traumatic confinement in Iran in 2009 compelled him to investigate conditions at Pelican Bay last year. With administrative and legal … At the heart of the …
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There Is No Good Drug War

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The choice to write from this personal vantage isn't immediately evident; Hart never struggled with addiction himself, nor does he center his story around particular loved ones whose lives were consumed by drugs. But it soon becomes clear that the …
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Sequestration as government malpractice

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Who loses? Thousands of people every year. People of all ages who have run out of options to treat terrible diseases like mantle cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma. Men, women and children who wait for a drug on the verge …
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"We are exploring all options at this time." Texas switched to the lethal, … Michael La Perruque said he occasionally went into the singer's hotel room to make sure he was breathing and would often find doctors to treat the pop superstar when he …
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