Friday prison injustice blogging

Adam Doster

1) Mississippi's forensics department is f-ed. 2) Bush's choice for Tennessee's federal trial court judge is general counsel for the nation's largest private prison corporation. So everybody sentenced is a potential profit-maker for his former employer. And he's not even qualified.

Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.
The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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