Weighing Penny Kotterman and Jason Williams
By Jenn Advertisement Superintendent of Public Instruction isn't often a race that a lot of voters care about — after all, how many of us know what the job description of this position is, let alone how to pick the best candidate for the job? Yet, I think that Superintendent of Public Instruction is the most interesting, and woefully underhyped, contest for … Read more
The Kingman Assessment: excerpts
by David Safier I posted yesterday that, in my non-lawyerly opinion, the conditions at the private, for-profit Kingman prison which resulted in the breakout of 3 prisoners and, most probably, the death of an innocent couple in New Mexico, qualify as criminal negligence. Whether my lay opinion has any legal basis is another story. But … Read more
Update: Pimps for Private Prisons and Profit
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Republic has been doing an excellent job of reporting on Arizona's prison/lobbyist scandal. On Sunday, the Republic reported Arizona inmate escape puts spotlight on state private prisons: Arizona puts more of its inmates into privately run prisons every year, even though the prisons may not be as secure as state-run … Read more
Press conference re: Arizona’s prison scandal
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Short summary courtesy of the Arizona Guardian.
The Glassman Campaign’s Slow-Motion Implosion… and What It Says About Rodney Glassman As a Candidate
By Jenn Rodney Glassman is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Republican and Democratic voters hit the polls next Tuesday for the primary elections, and, for Democrats, one of the biggest decisions we will have to make is between the four candidates running to represent our party against Senator John McCain in November. Of … Read more
Americans agree 2-1: Let the Bush tax cuts for the über-rich expire
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Joan McCarter at Daily Kos reports on the latest CNN/Opinion Research Poll: The latest CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that 69% of Americans support ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy–they like the idea of higher taxes for people earning more than $250,000 a year. Go figure. Media Matter's Political Correction puts that in … Read more
Not “human error.” Conditions at Kingman prison are a case of criminal negligence.
by David Safier Here's an example of human error leading to a prison break: A guard falls asleep at his post. Here's another example: Someone throws the wrong switch on a control panel, and a door that should be locked is left open. What happened at the Kingman private, for-profit prison was not human error. … Read more
