NAACP Opposes Mass Incarceration, Private Prisons
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 By Dianne Post
For years Arizona has relied on mass incarceration as its primary criminal justice response. That reliance is ineffective, inefficient, inhumane and discriminatory. The NAACP opposes the continuance of mass incarceration and the building of prisons, especially private, for-profit prisons, as the lynchpin of Arizona’s criminal justice policy.
The State has spent millions and wants to spend millions more for prisons. In 2009 the legislature passed a law to build 5,000 more pr...
You've heard the one about the closeted "tough-on-immigration" sheriff who was running for Congress and got outed by his Mexican ex-lover, right? If not, you should really get to grips with the story of Paul Babeu. A good place to start is the 
Governor Brewer wants it both ways on the border. On one hand her administration has an office devoted to increasing 
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu built a reputation as a rising, conservative star by taking a hardline stance against illegal immigration, attacking the Obama administration and appearing alongside Sen. John McCain in a 2010 re-election ad in which McCain urged federal officials to just "complete the danged fence."
If you are a Starbuck’s fan, and I am, and if you are an advocate of sane gun control, which I am, you might be looking for a place other than your local Starbuck’s store to get your daily coffee fix. And I might just do that too if the gun bubbas attempt to bully their way around where my wife and I migrate to at least three or four times a week for our favorite brews.
Arizona's private prisons are unneeded, unsafe and waste millions of taxpayer dollars, according to a new report from the Arizona branch of the American Friends Service Committee.
The Republican merry band of stonewalling bunglers started out the new year with their same tactics of 
Republicans in the Arizona state legislature have proposed changes to the state's recall law that could have kept immigration bill architect Russell Pearce in office.
Hidee-ho everybody,
Speaking of the Voter Protection Act, Prop. 105 (1998), the Tea-Publicans are assaulting this provision, and your rights also. They really don't like citizens passing initiatives telling them what to do. (That's reserved for lobbyists who contribute to their campaigns). Now they want to "sunset" review all citizen initiatives since 1998. 
ARIZONA: Where else to start but here. Back in November of 2011, a Surprise, AZ 4-year-old boy was injured in the face while playing with a gun. In the headline of this story it said “only in Arizona.” The article also stated that over the years there have been “scores of scientific studies documenting the fact that guns in homes tend to decrease, not increase, the safety of the occupants of such homes.” What kin...
In what has to be the most hilariously unconstitutional piece of legislation that I've seen in quite some time, senators in the Arizona state legislature have introduced a bill that would require all educational institutions in the state -- including state universities -- to suspend or fire professors who say or do things that aren't allowed on network TV. Yes, you read that right: at the same time the Supreme Court is poised to decide if FCC-imposed limits on...
The National Rifle Assn. (NRA) must be stopped and whoever accomplishes this feat will be a hero, at least in my book. They have ramrodded a new law through the House, 
The Komen Foundation is still trying to undo the damage done. Now the foundation has issued an "apology." Via the 
The Senate Committee on Government Reform approved four anti-worker bills on Wednesday on a party-line vote, bills that were introduced only on Monday by its chair, Sen. Rick Murphy, R-Glendale, and fast-tracked for swift passage in the Senate to limit public testimony and to not leave enough time for public opposition to build against these bills as occurred in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.
Arizona could become the next Wisconsin as plans for protests, Capitol sit-ins and a potential effort to recall the governor get underway in an effort by progressives to block the 
An openly gay Arizona lawmaker has become the first Democrat to enter the special election to succeed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Congress.
