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Liliana Segura: Will the Supreme Court Toss Life Without Parole for Juveniles?

Liliana Segura, The Nation — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:00:01 PDT

The Supreme Court will decide whether a juvenile should go to prison for life, weighing which is worth more -- a child or his/her first crime?

Liliana Segura: Inside Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana Prison

Liliana Segura, ColorLines — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:00:01 PDT

The country's largest maximum security prison features a private golf course, an evangelical Christian warden, and has been compared to a slave plantation.

Liliana Segura: Would You Fight for the Life of a Man Who Shot You and Left You for Dead?

Liliana Segura, LilianaSegura.com — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:00:01 PDT

Capital punishment is supposed to bring closure to victims' families, but ignores the wishes of those who prefer forgiveness.

Liliana Segura: Tortured to Death in the US

Liliana Segura, The Nation — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:00:01 PDT

"The manner in which Texas carries out the execution of human beings is riskier, less transparent, and has less oversight than the euthanasia of cats, dogs, birds, lizards."

Liliana Segura: Journalism Professor Who Helped Free 5 Innocent Men from Death Roll Has Been Sacked

Liliana Segura, LilianaSegura.com — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:00:01 PDT

Days after the death penalty was abolished in Illinois, David Protess, a professor at Northwestern Universityâ€™s Medill School of Journalism for 29 years, has lost his job.

Liliana Segura: Life Without Parole: When You Know You'll Spend Your Whole Life in Prison

Liliana Segura, LilianaSegura.com — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:00:01 PST

Even prisoner advocacy groups focus mainly on the conditions of confinement, without necessarily questioning sentences that drive prisoners to despair.

Liliana Segura: Supreme Court Says Feds Can Detain Sex Offenders Indefinitely: Why That's Dangerous

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:00:01 PDT

The U.S. government can now keep prisoners in custody who have not necessarily been convicted of a crime, based on suspicions of "future dangerousness."

Liliana Segura: Major Supreme Court Ruling: Kids Who Didn't Kill Anyone Should Not Have to Die in Prison

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:01 PDT

The Supreme Court has given a second chance to juveniles serving life without parole for non-homicide crimes.

Liliana Segura: Arizona Superintendent Uses 'I Have a Dream' Speech To Justify Ethnic Studies Ban; Students Fight Back

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:00:01 PDT

Hatemongers in Arizona are now taking aim at kids by trying to kill a program that's bolstered academic achievement by Latino students.

Liliana Segura: 6 Things You Might Not Know About Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:00:01 PDT

Here's a fuller portrait of Kagan's background and what makes her tick.

Liliana Segura: Lieberman Preys on Voter Fears, Proposes Law to Preemptively Strip Citizenship from Terror Suspects

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Lieberman's latest assault on constitutional rights: a proposal to circumvent due process for U.S. citizens by conveniently stripping their citizenship.

Liliana Segura: Forces Align Against Arizona: 4 Major Cities Threaten Boycotts, Baseball Flexes Its Muscles, Citizens in Uproar

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:00:01 PDT

As calls continue to boycott Arizona over its racist immigration law, many are focusing on Major League Baseball, where nearly a third of the players are Latino.

Liliana Segura: Why Law Enforcement Officials Should Hate Arizona's Racist New Law

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Arizona's draconian anti-immigration law will create a chilling effect in the very communities police officers rely on to fight crime.

Liliana Segura: Right-Wing Attacks on South Park Censorship Ignore America's Wars in Muslim Countries

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:00:01 PDT

It's absurd to buttonhole Comedy Central when U.S. troops are occupying two Muslim nations and bombing a third.

Liliana Segura: Videos of Small Animals Being Crushed by Women in High Heels Are Protected Free Speech?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:01 PDT

The Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling comes down to protecting the depiction of a gruesome act on 1st Amendment grounds, not the legality of the gruesome act itself.

Liliana Segura: Study Settles It: Shocking Black & Latino Imprisonment Rates the Result of Racist, Punitive Impulse

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:01 PDT

How racist attitudes barely hide beneath the surface of 'tough on crime' policies.

Liliana Segura: 'I Didn't Do Anything, And I Got My Ass Kicked' -- The Unfolding Police Scandal Over Videotaped Student Beating

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:01 PDT

University of Maryland police brutality case is a sobering reminder that an officer's word can carry tremendous weight against that of an average person.

Liliana Segura: Iraq Vet From WikiLeaks Video Unit: Video Is Shocking But Shouldn't Be Surprising, This Is What They Are Trained to Do

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:00:01 PDT

Josh Stieber talks about how the disturbing video shouldn't be seen as a few soldiers behaving badly but as a sign of a broken system where the same 'outrages' will continue.

Liliana Segura: Report: British Soldiers Using Models of Mosques for Target Practice

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:00:01 PDT

While a military spokesman denied the structures were meant to be mosques, he defended the use of props 'that replicate the environment [soldiers] will be deployed to.'

Liliana Segura: Karzai Threatens to Join the Taliban, as U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan Hits a New Low

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:00:01 PDT

The most recent news from Afghanistan shows how deadly and dysfunctional the U.S. mission there is.

Liliana Segura: Ruling OK's Tasering Pregnant Woman Three Times

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Seven-months-pregnant Malaika Brooks suffered repeated 50,000 volt shocks for refusing to sign a speeding ticket, and a federal court of appeals ruled it justified.

Liliana Segura: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison -- a Powerful Memoir by Piper Kerman

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Piper Kerman's memoir reveals how prison changed her life, and why warehousing people who commit crimes is such a waste of human potential.

Liliana Segura: Do Republicans Really Have a Shot at Crippling Obama's Health Care Reform with a Constitutional Challenge?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:00:01 PDT

Fourteen state attorney generals are suing the federal government, charging it with a power-grabbing violation of the 10th Amendment. Can it possibly work?

Liliana Segura: Health Care Bill Throws Women Under the Bus on Reproductive Rights

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:00:01 PDT

Despite the many good elements in the health care bill, it deals a heavy blow to the pro-choice movement.

Liliana Segura: McCain and Lieberman's "Enemy Belligerent" Act Could Set U.S. on Path to Military Dictatorship

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Glenn Greenwald calls the bill "probably the single most extremist, tyrannical and dangerous bill introduced in the Senate in the last several decades."