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Crime and Prisons

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.

Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests. Erik Eckholm. NY TImes. 5/06/2008.

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.

Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.

Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/25/2008.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

Book: 911 Commission Executive Director Had Closer White House Ties Than Publicly Disclosed. Hope Yen. AP. 2/04/2008.

Former press aide blames Bush in CIA leak case. JoAnne Allen. Reuters. 11/20/07

Israel’s Syrian Airstrike Was Aimed at Iran. Gareth Porter. IPS. 11/20/07.

Blackwater’s Loopholes

Felons Right to Vote. New York Times, 4/05/07. Graphic of felon voting writes in the United States.

McClatchy series on the death penalty (2007)

America's Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/07

UNCJIN United Nations Criminal Justice Network

Oregon Dept. of Corrections

Justice Information Center (NCJRS)

Legal Justice Reform Network

Crime Maps of Portland, Oregon

Essential Information

Corporate Crime: Three Strikes, You're Out

Prison Activist

Private Prisons:Profits of Crime article

Scaffer Library of Drug Policy

Crime and Prisons

America's Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/07

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.

Blackwater’s Loopholes

Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.

Book: 911 Commission Executive Director Had Closer White House Ties Than Publicly Disclosed. Hope Yen. AP. 2/04/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/25/2008.

Corporate Crime: Three Strikes, You're Out

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

Crime Maps of Portland, Oregon

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Essential Information

Felons Right to Vote. New York Times, 4/05/07. Graphic of felon voting writes in the United States.

Former press aide blames Bush in CIA leak case. JoAnne Allen. Reuters. 11/20/07

Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.

Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.

Israel’s Syrian Airstrike Was Aimed at Iran. Gareth Porter. IPS. 11/20/07.

Justice Information Center (NCJRS)

Legal Justice Reform Network

McClatchy series on the death penalty (2007)

New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Oregon Dept. of Corrections

Prison Activist

Private Prisons:Profits of Crime article

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests. Erik Eckholm. NY TImes. 5/06/2008.

Scaffer Library of Drug Policy

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

UNCJIN United Nations Criminal Justice Network

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.