prisons

Prisons benefit the environment by severely restricting inmate consumption of resources and fossil fuels. Prisons are the exact opposite of the car-centered suburban sprawl of single-family homes that environmentalists criticize. Incarceration may provide other environmental benefits. On the...

I was never fond of the lobby. And stories like this are just horrible: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/in-new-jersey-halfway-houses-escapees-stream-out-as-a-penal-business-thrives.html?_r=2&gwh=4A414A96EFE935D227FF0D427E211C20

The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 suspected plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United States in holding and interrogating suspects...