8. Robbie Brown and Kim Severson, “Enlisting Prison Labor to Close Budget Gaps,” New York Times, February 24, 2011.
9. Vicky Pelaez, The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? (Montreaclass="underline" Centre for Research on Globalization, March 2008), http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289.
10. Ibid.
13. DEPORTING FOR CASH
1. Suevon Lee, “By the Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry,” ProPublica, June 20, 2012.
2. Ted Robbins, “In the Rush to Deport, Expelling U.S. Citizens,” All Things Considered, NPR, October 24, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/10/24/141500145/in-the-rush-to-deport-expelling-u-s-citizens.
3. Ibid.
4. Julia Preston, “Immigration Crackdown Also Snares Americans,” New York Times, December 13, 2011.
5. Sullivan, “Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law.”
6. Ibid.
7. Renee Feltz, “5 Things You Need to Know about Arizona’s Immigration Law,” PBS, July 29, 2010, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/arizonas-immigration-law/2531/.
8. Preston, “Immigration Crackdown Also Snares Americans.”
9. Axel Caballero, “Alabama Brings Back Slavery for Latinos,” Guardian, October 12, 2011.
10. Ibid.
11. Dan Rivoli, “Alabama Immigration Law: Worker-Strapped Farm Groups Doubt Prisoner Remedy,” International Business Times, October 7, 2011.
12. Caballero, “Alabama Brings Back Slavery.”
14. THE WAR AGAINST THE POOR (AND MIDDLE CLASS)
1. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Leveclass="underline" Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (London: Bloomsbury, 2011).
2. Ibid.
3. Peter Fenn, “Tea Party Funding Koch Brothers Emerge from Anonymity,” U.S. News & World Report, February 2, 2011. All four Koch brothers, who inherited their fortunes from their father, industrialist Fred C. Koch, spent twenty years in court squabbling over the precise distribution of assets. They settled in 2001. See “Billionaire Family Feuds: The High Stakes of Dysfunction and Dissent,” Forbes, June 1, 2012.
4. Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker, interview with Bill Moyers, Moyers and Company, PBS, January 15, 2012.
5. See Paul Solman, “Many Americans Feel ‘Stuck in a Rut’ as Economy Improves, but Inequality Grows,” NewsHour, PBS, March 24, 2011, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june11/inequality_03-24.html.
6. See “Elizabeth Warren on Fair Taxation,” YouTube video, 1:17, posted by “ahmnatheist,” September 21, 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOyDR2b71ag.
7. Robert Lenzner, “Income Inequality from Generation to Generation,” Forbes, March 26, 2012.
8. Emmanuel Saez, Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States, March 2, 2012, http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2010.pdf.
9. Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011).
10. Joseph Dillon Davey, The New Social Contract: America’s Journey from Welfare State to Police State (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995).
11. Wilkinson and Pickett, Spirit Level.
12. Dillon, New Social Contract.
13. See Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, “FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring,” JusticeOnline.org, December 22, 2012, http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html. This report extracted the information on the government campaign against Occupy Wall Street by demanding answers through the Freedom of Information Act.
14. Jason DeParle, Robert Gebeloff, and Sabrina Tavernise, “Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census,” New York Times, November 18, 2011.
15. “Goldman Sachs 2009 Pay Up as Profit Soars,” MSNBC.com, January 21, 2010, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34972351/ns/business-earnings/#.UUDXsFdT0ww.
16. Pew Charitable Trusts, Economic Mobility Project, http://www.pewstates.org/projects/economic-mobility-project-328061.
17. See Sanders’s official Senate website.
18. Right on Crime, “Statement of Principles,” 2010, http://www.rightoncrime.com/the-conservative-case-for-reform/statement-of-principles/.
15. CRAZY CONSEQUENCES
1. Taylor’s case has received only sporadic coverage by larger media but is detailed in FAMM, “Michelle Taylor—Nevada,” Faces of FAMM: State Profiles, accessed March 22, 2013, http://www.famm.org/profilesofinjustice/StateProfiles/MichelleTaylorNevada.aspx.
2. “Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?” KOLO8 News, April 15, 2010, http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/90976314.html; and FAMM, “Michelle Taylor.
3. Howard Copelan, “Life Sentence for Molester Was Cruel and Unusual? Taylor’s Sentencing Video Reposted,” Coyote TV, February 1, 2013, http://www.coyote-tv.com/2013/02/01/life-sentence-for-molester-was-cruel-and-unusual/.
4. “Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?”
5. “Wisconsin Sex Offender Archive Record for Anne M. Knopf,” Sex Offender Archives, accessed March 22, 2013, http://www.sorarchives.com/citydirectory/WI/Ellsworth/Anne_M_Knopf_627379.
6. Jake, “The 50 Most Infamous Female Teacher Sex Scandals: #4 Pamela Rogers Turner,” Zimbio, May 26, 2009, http://www.zimbio.com/The+50+Most+Infamous+Female+Teacher+Sex+Scandals/articles/zTQENnMYVVc/4+Pamela+Rogers+Turner.
7. FAMM, “What the Experts Say,” About Sentencing, accessed March 22, 2013, http://www.famm.org/aboutsentencing/WhattheExpertsSay.aspx.
8. “No Fetuses in Food: Oklahoma Lawmaker Explains Intent behind Bill,” Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2012.
9. Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Welcome to Debtors’ Prison, 2011 Edition,” Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2011.