Living With the Dead
Oakland, Calif.—And where do the dead go after they have sucked down their last breaths and drowned in the rafters of their homes? After they have died in the… More
Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans?
What do people really know about New Orleans?Do they take away with them an awareness that it has always been not only a great white metropolis but also a… More
The Kingdom and the Power
The news yesterday that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia had died sent only minor ripples through Wall Street, and caused few jitters in the already nervous energy markets. That… More
Countdown in Fear
We call him Little Z. Today he received in the mail the news he had been fearing, word from the trial court that he has been assigned an execution… More
Prison Sexuality
Many will consider this a perverse subject, one they would rather ignore than discuss. To do so is to deny nature. For those concerned with the health and well-being… More
Fifty Percent
I stand beneath the eaves at the back entrance to a prison school classroom watching the rain. A double row of chain-link fencing topped by spools of razorwire separate… More
LIVE! From Texas Death Row!
I just got off work. I hate my job I never want to go back, but it’s not an option I can't quit and I can't get fired. I’m… More
Free Speech Wars
Ozzy Osbourne is notorious 'round these parts for once watering down our shrine of liberty, the Alamo. On April 2, 2004, the Texas Board of Criminal Justice did worse… More
Prisoners & the Wizard of Oz
For over sixty years no movie has capture our imagination like the movie The Wizard of Oz. Viewing it once again had me reminiscing how me, my sister, and… More
Made in the USA
The pictures that came out of Iraq told a brutal story. No, not the ones to which the public has grown disturbingly apathetic, those of American soldiers in action… More
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