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Tennessee Prison Will Now Be Suitable for Dogs

By Ganja Blue | September 9, 2008

Apparently dogs weren’t able to be trained at Mark H. Luttrell Correctional Center because of a lack of air conditioning. Apparently in Tennessee we’ll cage women in boxes not suitable for animals. I wish people would wake up and understand that the war on drugs is an affront to human rights.
Tennessee Women’s Prison to again [...]

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Drug War Disenfranchisement – Steve Pearson Removed from Bartlett, TN Ballot

By Ganja Blue | August 29, 2008

Possession of a plant can not only cost you your right to vote, it can also disqualify you from public service.
Commercial Appeal – Felony arrest ends Pearson’s bid for Bartlett post – The Shelby County Election Commission ruled that Steve Pearson III, who filed to face Young in the Nov. 4 election, did not [...]

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Steven Colbert: The Big Business of Incarceration

By Ganja Blue | May 16, 2008

As long as prisons are profitable we won’t ever see a decline in their population. Even though violent crime is down drastically from the 1970’s or prison population continues to skyrocket. Every year more and more draconian steps are taken to harshly punish non-violent consensual crime, like drug possession, gambling, alcohol (the most dangerous drug) [...]

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