Category Archives: Prison

The Californian referendum on the death penalty: Proposition 62 (8th November 2016)

Posted on December 2, 2016 by odeboyz

California voted on the death penalty through Proposition 62 (8th November 2016) . Currently 31 states in the USA have the death penalty with California a relatively late convert in 1978. Interestingly the November review of that decision rarely strayed … Continue reading →

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Prisons Aren’t Care Homes

Posted on September 23, 2016 by odeboyz

The “creditor” always becomes more humane to the extent that he has grown richer.… It is not unthinkable that a society might attain such a consciousness of power that it could allow itself the noblest luxury possible to it—letting those … Continue reading →

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Voting for Barbaric Sentences: California’s Proposition 184 (1994)

Posted on October 16, 2015 by odeboyz

Crimes which provoke outrage often lead to demands for draconian punishments from the public. This has been true down the ages. For example 18th century England had an extreme criminal code, more draconian and less humane than even the most rabid Californian … Continue reading →

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