By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief Let me set the scene. It’s a bright, sunny day and a girl is sitting alone at a table eating her lunch, WITH HEADPHONES IN, and an older gentleman sits down opposite her on the black wrought iron chair. She smiles politely and resumes eating her lunch never taking her headphones […]
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Leaving Private Prisons Behind: A Brief Saga
By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief An Introduction to Private Prisons Private prisons have been in America since San Quentin opened in California in 1852. But their numbers swelled in the 1980s with the Reagan Administration’s “War on Drugs.” Critics of the private prison system focus their rebuke of the system on the inhumane way that private […]
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Make Life Great, Prepare For Death
By Iracema Navarro, Staff Writer The last thing most of us want to think about is what I spend 35 hours a week talking about: Death. Not to worry though, reading this will only take about three minutes. I talk about death because I work in an industry that, strangely enough, has life in its […]
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Power to the People: Professor Discusses Improving the Legal System
By Destiny Torres, Staff Writer The ugly reality of the criminal justice system in the United States is that America makes up 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of its prisoners, with a disproportionate number of them young males of color. How this country got to this point is what James Forman […]
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Prisoner No More
By Yeymy Garcia, Managing Editor You might see Robert Garcia, or Bobby if you know him well enough, a muscular guy with a tattoo on his right bicep walking around campus confidently with his shaved head held up high ready to greet you with a smile and a “wassup.” He may look a little older […]