Articles tagged "prisons"

It could be you!

The syringes sit empty, ready for filling. The staff have all been trained, and are standing by. On Vietnam's death row, everything is set for carrying out hundreds of lethal injections but for one critical ingredient--poison.

Turns out locking people away for drug offenses runs up quite a tab. Who knew, right? But just in case, this slick new video infographic drives it home.

You don't have to be able to see through stone to realize just how fucked the American prison system is. Where to even begin? There are the insane profits reaped by "private prisons":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/opinion/krugman-prisons-priva…