“13th” discusses inequality of incarceration
Editor’s note: The U.S. observes February as Black History Month to honor African-American history. This section of The Guilfordian will feature a weekly film review centering on films that have been...
View ArticleSexual assault rates rise in US jails, prisons and military according to new...
Sexual violence against women in U.S. jails, prisons and the military has increased according to 2012 statistical reports. The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 requires an annual “comprehensive...
View ArticleThe US: An incarceration nation analysis
“With liberty and justice for all.” Never has a phrase been so universally understood yet so often misinterpreted. The U.S. was created on key morality-based concepts that have been lost to a system of...
View ArticleA look inside the deeply flawed US prison system
May 20, 2010 was a day I will never forget. I had been up late the night before. The worldwide premier of “Running America” played at the Carolina Theatre downtown. My father, Charlie Engle, had...
View ArticleA look inside the deeply flawed US prison system
May 20, 2010, was a day I will never forget. I had been up late the night before. The worldwide premier of “Running America” played at the Carolina Theatre downtown. My father, Charlie Engle, had...
View Article‘Orange is the New Black’: Revelation or exploitation?
This July, Netflix released its original series “Orange is the New Black.” Soon thereafter, Netflix subscribers picked up the show and raved about the diverse cast and portrayal of queer women. That...
View ArticleAriel Castro found guilty of 977 counts of rape, kidnapping, assault, commits...
On Sept. 3, Ariel Castro hanged himself in his prison cell in Franklin County, Ohio, after being sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years. “This man couldn’t take, for even a month, a small portion...
View ArticleWar on drugs: what has it accomplished?
Last Sunday was April 20, and I’m sure many Guilford students were ‘celeblazing’ the day. So, let’s talk about drugs. The war on drugs has been a massive failure. I know it, you know it. Its goal was...
View ArticleClass action lawsuit filed against Mississippi county
Oct. 18 marked 11 months of waiting for Octavious Burks. Burks spent that time inside the Scott County Detention Center in Forest, Mississippi, waiting for a grand jury indictment and a public...
View ArticleConsequences of U.S. mass incarceration
The U.S. has the one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. According to the 2015 World Prison Population List from the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, the U.S. incarcerates 698...
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