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Sadhbh Walshe

Sadhbh Walshe is a film-maker and former staff writer for the CBS drama series The District. Her opinion pieces have also been published in the Chicago Tribune and Irish Times.

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	Views Sunday, April 06, 2014 The Heir, the Judge and the Homeless Mom: America's Prison Bias for the 1% In 2009, when Robert H Richard IV, an unemployed heir to the DuPont family fortune, pled guilty to fourth-degree rape of his three-year-old daughter, a judge spared him a justifiable sentence – indeed, only put Richard on probation – because she figured this 1-percenter would "not fare well" in a... Read more
	Views Thursday, March 20, 2014 Why Do We Let 80,000 Americans Suffer a 'Slow-Motion Torture of Burying Alive'? Sarah Shourd still has nightmares about the 13 months she spent in solitary confinement in Iran. “It reduces you to an animal-like state,” she tells me. Read more
	Views Thursday, March 13, 2014 The Right's Poverty Plan: Shame Poor Kids and the Vaginas That Birthed Them So many of life’s problems could be solved, according to conservative provocateur Ann Coulter , if the poor could just learn to keep their knees together until they got married – and if their wealthy and educated counterparts just weren’t afraid to shame them into doing so. Read more
	Views Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Justin Bieber is Lucky That He's Rich. Poor Immigrants Don't Get Off so Lightly Anytime I feel called upon to devote column inches to the antics of a teenage pop sensation in meltdown mode, I die a little. Read more
	Views Thursday, January 02, 2014 Direct Your Anger at the Greedy Rich, Not the 'Wolf of Wall Street' Film Greed is still pretty good. Read more
	Views Friday, November 29, 2013 Walmart and Downton Abbey: Rampant Inequality and Detachment from Reality Read more
	Views Wednesday, October 30, 2013 End Corporate Welfare for McDonald's. Better Yet, Raise the Minimum Wage You've got to feel for McDonald's . Every time the misunderstood corporation tries to offer its' low-wage employees a hand, it backfires. Read more
	Views Thursday, October 10, 2013 Are Americans Dumb? No, It's the Inequality, Stupid Are Americans dumb? This is a question that has been debated by philosophers, begrudging foreigners and late night TV talk show hosts for decades. Anyone who has ever watched the Tonight Show's " Jaywalking " segment in which host Jay Leno stops random passersby and asks them rudimentary questions like "What is Julius Caesar famous for?" (Answer: "Um, is it the salad?") might already have made their minds up on this issue. Read more
	Views Wednesday, July 17, 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike Is Call for Justice Shortly after two statewide hunger strikes rocked the California prison system in 2011 , I began corresponding with several of the men who had participated in the protests. Read more
	Views Wednesday, June 26, 2013 It Hardly Feels Like 'Ultimate Justice' as Texas is Set to Execute 500th Prisoner On Tuesday evening, the Texas court of criminal appeals denied Kimberly McCarthy's motion to stay her execution paving the way for the African American woman to become the 500th person the state puts to death. Although Texas has long been the most execution prone state in the union, there has been some encouraging signs in the recent past that it is growing less comfortable with this dubious distinction. Read more

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