Sasha Abramsky
Author's Articles
Three decades in a blazing hellhole didn't get Tom Hazel the pension he was promised.
One Wal-Mart employee opens up about what it means to work hard every day and still be one step away from food stamps.
From caging to robo-calls, a MoJo field guide to vote-blocking tactics.
Even California's powerful prison guards' union thinks more prisons are a bad idea.
The Dems' next big gamble: Sway enough disgruntled conservatives to take Nevada, the West, and the White House.
Machines that count backward, slice-and-dice districts, felon baiting, phone jamming, and plenty of dirty tricks
Thousands of Florida residents were struck from the voter lists because they were mistakenly identified as ex-felons, just months before what has become the closest election in US history. With Bush apparently leading Gore by only hundreds of votes, in a state with hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters, could similar errors be tipping the race?
Wed Nov. 8, 2000 12:00 AM PST
Some four million US citizens, most of them minorities, are denied the right to vote because they were once convicted of felonies. The growing number of disenfranchised Americans may be helping elect Republicans, from state legislatures to the White House.
Mon Oct. 16, 2000 11:00 PM PDT
Think the LAPD and NYPD are corrupt? Over two decades, a single brutal unit of the Chicago Police Department allegedly tortured confessions out of dozens of suspects, including 10 who are now on death row. Now, some of them are finally getting another day in court.
Fri Mar. 3, 2000 12:00 AM PST
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