Michael Anthony Green is a free man. After spending 27 years in a Texas prison for a crime he did not commit, he was released last week after DNA evidence cleared him of the crime. He was convicted of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to 75 years in prison back in 1983, when he was [...]
Texas is facing about an $18 billion deficit in its budget. There has been much talk of closing some Texas prisons to ease the budget shortfall. However, as long as Texas judges and juries continue to hand out large sentences in non-violent cases, closing some prisons might be a little difficult. The following is from [...]
The following is an excellent article written by Martha Mendoza for the Associated Press: MEXICO CITY — After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread. Even U.S. drug czar Gil [...]