Justice

March 18, 2008 - For more than three decades, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have been locked in solitary confinement in Louisiana's notorious Angola prison for a murder the evidence shows they did not commit.

March 12, 2008 - Dessie Lee Patterson, the mayor of South Mansfield, La., was found murdered in her home yesterday following an apparent robbery. She was 88.

March 3, 2008 - An excerpt of a 1981 Southern Exposure interview with civil rights organizer James Orange, who talks about how he got his nickname, the importance of freedom songs to the movement, and his later work with gangs in Chicago. Orange passed in away in February 2008 at age 65.

February 29, 2008 - This week, the Pew Center on the States released a bombshell study revealing that our country is locking up record numbers of people in jail and prison.

February 26, 2008 - A former inmate of a CCA run prison is protesting a former CCA executive's nomination to a federal judge post:

February 21, 2008 - Just when it looked like former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's stock was going up, the Wall Street Journal reports his legal troubles may be just beginning (sub req'd for full piece):

February 19, 2008 - Human rights activists from the United States are gathering in the Swiss city of Geneva this week to hold the government to account for violations of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.