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Interview with Jim Ridgeway in Counterpunch "In the Hole-America's Solitary Nightmare"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

In the Hole America's Solitary Nightmare By RUSSELL MOKHIBER He always wanted to be an insider. But it never worked out. His DNA wouldn?t allow it. He was always an outsider. Always taking the side of the less powerful. As a student at Princeton in the 1950s, James Ridgeway worked on the student newspaper to expose the elitism and racism at the university?s eating club system. As a reporter at The New Republic in the 1960s, he exposed General Motors for spying on his friend Ralph Nader. He then exposed corporate connections to America?s university in his classic book ? The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis (Ballantine Books, 1970) And now, he says he working to expose President Obama?s lie that ?America doesn?t torture...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).