THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites. Thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to slow the pace of a racially biased d... Read more...
A former Philadelphia police officer, James Venziale, once commended for valor, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison today for his role in a scheme to rob a drug dealer of heroin and resell it for cash. Venziale got a break from the mandatory minimum of five years, or 60 months, because... Read more...
Companies across the United States have started including some prescription drugs in random employee drug tests, and firing workers who test positive. For example, Sue Bates lost her job of 22 years as an assembly line worker at Dura Automotive Systems after she tested positive for hyrdrocodone, ... Read more...
by Paul Hiebert Close to 17 years ago, Kurt Cobain died. Conspiracy theories about his death abound — as they tend to do with people of note — but most agree it was Cobain’s own decision to end his life. Since today would have been his 44th birthday, we bring you 44 facts about the man who ... Read more...
By: Anonymous My name is Cocaine - call me Coke for short. I entered this country without a passport. Ever since then I've made lots of scum rich. Some have been murdered and found in a ditch. I'm more valued than diamonds, more treasured than gold. Use me just once and you too will be sold.... Read more...
As Johnson & Johnson was quietly removing defective Motrin from store shelves it ignored regulators who said the problems with the drug warranted an official recall, according to documents obtained by CNNMoney.com. "It seems that your company is doing a recall even though you are calling ... Read more...
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26/08/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Hoe-ward Shows,
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Edward Stourton chairs a live debate in which Professor David Marsland defends his view that the mentally and morally unfit should be sterilised. Professor David Marsland is Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at Brunel University, London and Professorial Research Fellow in Sociology... Read more...
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19/08/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Health,
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Professor Sir Ian Gilmore said making drugs such as heroin and cocaine legal would “drastically” cut crime and addicts’ health problems. State-regulated use of drugs would also save money and avert the need to try to stop drug production in countries such as Afghanistan,... Read more...
Suspected drug hitmen have abducted the mayor of a tourist town near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in the latest surge in drug violence threatening to undermine industry and scare off investors. Gunmen with automatic weapons burst into Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos' home on Sunday in Santiago, a c... Read more...