Search
Categories
-
Recent Posts
- Sheriff Darnell joins in resolution against medical marijuana
- New DOC prison boss is a lifer
- Two Prison Letters
- How Conservatives Learned to Love Prison Reform
- Police: At least seven inmates in Florida have used forged
- JPMorgan to pay $5.1 billion to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac over mortgages
- High court test of surveillance law could be ahead
- Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion May Lower Prison Costs: Study
- Curbing antibiotics on farms taking too long
- FDA wants restrictions on hydrocodone painkillers
Pages
Blogroll
Links
Archives
- May 2015
- February 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Talking Back to the sheriff and state attorney of Alachua, Florida
Talking Back Kinloch C. Walpole 3/23/2009 Both Bill Cervone, the State Attorney, and Sadie Darnell, the Alachua County Sheriff should be commended on reducing the jail population for Alachua County. Undoubtedly, this will save county tax payers lots of money … Continue reading
Posted in The Problem
Leave a comment
Cut the Prison rate safely
Cut the Prison rate safely K.C. Walpole March 26, 2008 On March 23, 2008, the Gainesville Sun ran a story on the editorial page titled ‘Here’s how Americans can cut the prison rate safely. At the core of the article … Continue reading
Posted in Prison and Jails, The Problem
Leave a comment
Pulling the Plug on Prison Construction
Pulling the Plug on Prison Construction Kinloch C. Walpole September 5, 2007 Florida has had a higher ratio of crimes of violence than the nation as a whole for over 40 years. Think of the number of murders, rapes and … Continue reading
Posted in Prison and Jails, The Problem
Leave a comment
A New State Prison on 39th Avenue was DOA
A New State Prison on 39th Avenue was DOA July 5, 2008 The thought of a second state prison in northeast Gainesville on 39th Avenue terrifies local elected officials. Not because it is out of harmony with the local growth … Continue reading
Posted in Prison and Jails, The Problem
Leave a comment
Culture of incarceration
Culture of incarceration By K.C. Walpole Special to The Sun Published: Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 12:48 a.m. The history of Florida politics has always involved a model of a subjugated/oppressed … Continue reading
Posted in Prison and Jails, The Problem
Leave a comment
Prison Rape
Prison Rape 8/4/2003 The recent rape of a male college student in the Alachua County Jail while sad and regrettable is a fact of life in the jails and prisons across the nation. Estimates place these rapes at 240,000 per … Continue reading
Posted in Prison and Jails, The Problem
2 Comments
Budgets are the Rosetta Stones of political doublespeak
Budgets are the Rosetta Stones of political doublespeak Kinloch C. Walpole E. T. York, Chancellor Emeritus of the State University System recently stated in the Sun (8 Dec.) that Florida can and must do better in public funding of education. … Continue reading
Posted in The Problem
Leave a comment
