Positive News editor Lucy Purdy introduces the new issue of the magazine, which includes features about ageing, prisons and the co-operatives movement. Despite humanity’s destructive ability, we’re capable of greatness too, she says – if we choose where to look
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Joe Biden's niece Caroline Biden just avoided jail for a $100k credit card fraud. When I first read this, I was outraged. She should go to jail like everyone else! But then I thought about it and realized, Isn't this better for her and us?
Are private prisons worse than others? It’s hard to tell. But if they are, we should all remember that the customer is king and if there is anyone to blame for the poor state of private prisons, it’s their only customer: the government.
Undocumented workers who find themselves in jail have very few alternatives for being bonded out. One company, Nexus, provides them with this desperately needed service when no one else can or will. What's wrong with that?
If you want true food transparency, there’s nothing better than knowing that your food was grown at a farm within 5 miles from your home, or that your favorite wine comes from a winery across the beaten path. Now, France’s National Assembly (upper chamber of Parliament) wants to make local food an imperative with a law that requires 40% of all food served in ‘collective restaurants’ to be sourced locally.
Maybe the non-violent drug offenders in Maryland correctional facilities should be released to make room for these corrupt corrections officers.
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[Note: Again, real national-level news from a small town, Spokane, in a small state, Washington. This is published now at Spokane Living Magazine. Great photos by my daughter, Makenna. A community college student in Spokane. What more does the world want than a radical revolutionary who write kick-ass better-than-that-Hunter/freak/Thompson AND also does straight ahead journalism?]
More Bang for the Public Safety Buck: Criminal Justice Commission Pushes a No New Jail Thesis
Press TV – May 18, 2013
Pro-Palestine activists are to march on the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) annual congress in London, demanding relocation of upcoming European under-21s championships in Israel.
Al-Akhbar | May 16, 2013
Prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab has been removed from his cell to an unknown location, losing all contact with his family and lawyer, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights reported Wednesday.
In an appeal sent out by the human rights group, Rajab had reportedly witnessed prisoners at the central Jaw prison being tortured.
