August 20, 2022
Covering Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
From Gov. Gary Johnson:
February 10, 2016 – Santa Fe, NM– I am often asked about private prisons – and whether they create political and financial pressure to unnecessarily incarcerate drug offenders and others. I understand the concern and the potential for such pressure, but when I was Governor, it simply didn’t happen.
August 15, 2013
Kevin Zeese, Attorney General & Clifford Thornton, Drug Policy Administrator
Finally, after working to see the end of mandatory minimum sentencing for nearly 30 years, hearing Attorney General Holder say the obvious – that mandatory sentences don’t work, are costly, unfair and need to be ended – was welcome.
On July 8, 2013, incarcerated people at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison went on hunger strike against conditions of solitary confinement at the facility.