Ivan Goldman - Sick Justice - Inside the American Gulag

Stone, Jed, 81

Stone, Jeff, 160

stop-and-frisks, 189–91, 192

Stored Communications Act, 5

Strickland, Greg, 106

Tabert, Martin, 137–38

Tavarez, Henry, 49

Taylor, Gregory, 66–67

Taylor, Michael, 66

Taylor, Michelle Lyn, 155–57

Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, 137

testimony, rewarding false, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92

testing for drugs, 107, 153

Texas, 88–90, 113, 137, 173, 197

Thomas, Clarence, 94

Thomas, Kelly, 178–79

Thompson, Hunter, 4, 42

Thompson, John, 92–95

three-strikes laws

California, 6, 16, 65, 68, 71–74, 107, 198

gain and loss of force, 67

Louisiana, 74

Oklahoma, 50

overview, 15–16, 67–68

punishment not fitting the crime, 49–52

Tiahrt Amendment, 25

Time , 46

Tolstoy, Leo, 195–96, 204

Tomsheck, James, 48

Tonry, Michael, 24

Torrez, Jorge, 98

Treatment Advocacy Center, 178

tribal loyalty of drug addicts, 43

Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 203

Turner, Pamela Rogers, 157

Twin Towers Correctional Facility, 167

two-strikers, 69–71, 74

Tyson, Mike, 15, 189

undercover agents, police using convicts as, 62–64

unemployment rates, 189, 193, 202

Unicor, 136

unindicted coejaculator theory, 97–98

union, California’s prison guard, 6, 73, 105–9, 111, 112–13

University of California, 108

University of Michigan study, 86–87

University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, 198

Urban Development Corporation, 15

USA Today , 8–9

Useem, Bert, 24

user fees, 160–61

Valencia, Brenda, 3–4, 17, 28, 38, 126, 136, 187–88, 201

Valjean, Jean, 7, 16–17

Van Vleet, Russ, 133

Vance, Cy, Jr., 86

veterans courts, 201

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 89

Vilca, Daniel, 10

Village Voice , 192

violence, law distinction of, 68

violence in prison

guard on prisoner, 166–69

learning, 169

prisoner on prisoner, 163–66

violence ratio, 23

violent crime, decrease in, 23–24

Volstead Act, 202

Wackenhut, 116, 120–21

Walker, Douglas, 72

Wall Street Journal , 106, 158

Wall Street Reform Act, 152

Waller, Michael, 97, 98

Wallis, Greg, 90

war on drugs

corruption, 47–49

cost, 46

counterproductivity of, 9, 39–43

imprisonment of users, 37–38, 40–41, 46, 49

legislation affecting offenders for life, 55–60

Warren, Elizabeth, 148–49

Washington, 58, 67–68, 111

welfare, 55, 108, 153

Welfare Reform Act, 55

Wells, Harold R., 50

West Memphis Three, 99–100, 101

Wexler, Chuck, 25

Whitman, James, 7

Whitman, Meg, 108

Wilkinson, Richard, 147, 150

Williams, Jerry DeWayne, 7

Willingham, Cameron Todd, 89

Wilson, John Ray, 57–58

Wilson, Pete, 107

Windom, Gary, 161

Winner-Take-All Politics (Hacker), 149

Wise, Donald, 91

witnesses, rewarding, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92

women’s courts, 201

Wood, Evan, 173–74

Woodbury, Gary, 156

World Health Organization, 202

wrongful convictions, 12–13, 28, 33, 86–88

wrongful speech, 53–54

Wronko, James, 58

Yahoo Sports, 188

Yank, Ronald, 109

Youngblood, Donny, 161

Zellner, Kathleen, 98

zero-tolerance policies, 4, 7, 15, 57, 189

IVAN G. GOLDMAN COVERED CONGRESS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST , WORKED the National Desk of the Los Angeles Times , and was an editorial writer and op-ed columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . A longtime boxing columnist, he has written for Columbia Journalism Review, Utne Reader, The Nation, National Review, Rolling Stone , the New York Times , and other publications. He has done dozens of commentaries for Marketplace , a show heard throughout the NPR network. His previous nonfiction work, L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network , coauthored with ex-detective Mike Rothmiller, was a New York Times bestseller. He has also written four novels: Where the Money Is: A Novel of Las Vegas; The Barfighter , which was nominated as a 2009 Notable Book by the American Library Association; and most recently, Isaac: A Modern Fable , which received a starred review in BookList . Goldman, who holds an MA from the University of Kansas, was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives with his wife in Southern California. He can be reached at ivangoldman@yahoo.com.

L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network (with Mike Rothmiller)

The Barfighter

Exit Blue

Isaac: A Modern Fable

Where the Money Is: A Novel of Las Vegas

American Poverty: Presidential Failures and a Call to Action

—Woody Klein

Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law

—Christopher H. Pyle

Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions

—Richard A. Stack

Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade

—Janice G. Raymond

© 2013 by Ivan G. Goldman

All rights reserved

Potomac Books is an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Goldman, Ivan G.

Sick justice : inside the American Gulag / Ivan G. Goldman. — First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61234-487-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-61234-488-1 (electronic)

1. Prisons—United States. 2. Corrections—United States. 3. Criminal justice, Administration of—United States. I. Title.

HV9471.G646 2013

365’.973—dc23

2013003517

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 Standard.

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