Laura Flanders
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 1, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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America’s Carceral System Locks Up Lots of Creativity (opens the original)
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According to a report from the Prison Policy Initiative, U.S. taxpayers and families of system-involved people pay at least $445 billion every year to keep people incarcerated. Which is to say, we in the U.S. spend an astronomical amount of money to lock people up. Meanwhile, conditions for incarcerated people have been getting steadily worse. Take one program — The Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA. Created by Congress over two decades ago, the PREA supposedly created a zero tolerance policy
The Exploitation of America's Farmworkers (opens the original)
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Farm workers on a field near Mount Williamson in Inyo County, California. Photograph by Ansel Adams. Public domain. Farmworkers are the backbone of America, but this country has a long history of exploiting the very people on whose labor we depend. Under the Trump administration, so many ICE agents have shown up at farms that farmworkers have stopped showing up to work, crops have gone bad, and — no surprise — food prices have soared. This March, the administration’s answer to consumer concerns
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