The frightening saga of Amanda Knox, an American student who was convicted of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, has finally drawn to a close. An Italian court has thrown out Knox’s 2009 conviction. After four years in an Italian prison cell, Amanda Knox will finally go free. Knox was not guilty [...]
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The history of justice in America is pocked with such deep institutional injustices that time and again we make a mockery of the word. From slavery to the War on Drugs, the powerful have trampled time and again on the weak. Law and order masquerade as justice, and our prisons fill to the brim with [...]
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Failure to act quickly may have prolonged sexual abuse scandals that have plagued Texas for at least the past decade, according to Tim Murphy of Mother Jones: Gov. Rick Perry did not take swift action to address the problem, which his office knew about for years. Allegations of systematic mistreatment at TYC facilities first came to [...]
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Tim Murphy digs into the big business of the private prison industry over at Mother Jones. He zeroes in on Rick Perry who took steps to help close the state’s $27 billion deficit last year by pushing for the privatization of the Texas prison healthcare network: Private prisons are a big business in Texas, where [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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