OPINION: Solitary confinement is torture and should be banned
Nearly 20% of adults in state and federal prison spend time in solitary confinement while serving out their sentences.
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Nearly 20% of adults in state and federal prison spend time in solitary confinement while serving out their sentences.
Most people can agree that the drinking culture at colleges and universities across the country is not great. College students are known for regular binge drinking and throwing parties where alcohol is commonplace.
The corporate democracy, which is the United States, has been under the control of a very small group of private corporations for far too long.
Homelessness has always been a problem in the U.S., but with stagnant wages and an exceptionally inflated housing market, homelessness has been on the rise in cities across the country.
Contributing to “the new Jim Crow,” the war on drugs in the U.S. has been one of the country’s greatest missteps in recent history. Billions of dollars have been wasted and thousands of lives have been ruined simply for using a substance.
The health care debate within the U.S. has repeatedly been met with staunch criticism from many other developed nations around the globe.
Centrist Democrats and Democratic strategists have had the same approach to winning national elections for years and it consistently fails. They should move further left to be in line with the American people on the issues.
Within the progressive movement in the U.S., there is momentum growing for the idea of implementing a universal basic income.
The immigration policies from left wing politicians have recently become so often maligned by Republicans in Congress.
The voting system across the majority of the country today is not perfect. Just like in the 2016 presidential election, voters are often forced to choose between the “lesser of two evil,” and that can make voting for one candidate very difficult.
It is our right to look into the companies that IU invests in, seeing as it is a publicly funded university.
The dialogue in the country since the rise of more left-leaning politicians has been approaching candidates and their platforms as rigidly socialist versus capitalist when this is the wrong way to be viewing politics in the context of political and economic reform.
Throughout the national conversation regarding anti-Semitism and U.S. support for Israel, many states have silently been passing pro-Israel legislation that critics say suppresses free speech rights. Indiana is one of 26 states that has anti-BDS legislation.
The United States is currently in the midst of mass calls for criminal justice reform, as witnessed recently in California. However, the United States still has the death penalty in 30 states, including Indiana.