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A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Unmarked trucks ...
by Associated Press
on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 09:59 AM PST
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Violent crime in Australia is gradually decreasing. This is good. Except among Indigenous people. Rates of imprisonment Australia-wide are declining, which is also gratifying. But the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people incarcerated...
by Alan Austin
on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 09:53 AM PST
with 7 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In March 2007, Karen Greenberg reported on a visit she had made to the war-on-terror prison camp at the U.S. naval base in...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 07:03 AM PST
with 8 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, many of its prisoners, swept up in the early days of the war on terror, had committed no hostile acts against this country or...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Jan 20, 2022 at 08:11 AM PST
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California’s Assembly Bill 732 —“An act to amend Sections 3405, 3406, 3409, 4023.5, 4023.6, and 4028 of, and to add Sections 3408 and 4023.8 to to, the Penal Code, relating to incarcerated persons”— seems to be stalled in the state senate. Or headed...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Jun 13, 2020 at 09:20 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Imagine being in a 1600 sq foot dorm room with 64 other men. A 5 ft high partition runs down the center of the room with bunks on either side, men’s heads literally butted up against the wall and each other……… Each side of the room has a 3 foot wide...
by Jimsblog
on Wed May 13, 2020 at 05:55 PM PDT
with 45 Recommends
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Dolita Wilhike’s portrait is cast in sepia, her head tilted to the right and eyes fixed upward. The image evokes the iconic portrait of activist Angela Davis. However, surrounding Wilhike’s face is an image of the American flag. From afar, the image is...
by Tamar Sarai Davis
on Fri Mar 06, 2020 at 06:00 AM PST
with 47 Recommends
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Every day we read about cruelty to children, poor people, refugees, immigrants, you name it. Now, in the name of Stopping The Opioid Crisis we are forcing people with terrible chronic pain to stop taking their medication, because SOME people abuse...
by Colorado Blue
on Tue Sep 10, 2019 at 09:16 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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In Massachusetts organizers aren’t waiting on legislators to understand the importance of incarcerated citizens having voting rights. Earlier this year in January S.12 was introduced by Senator Adam Hinds in partnership with Emancipation Initiative....
by Amani Sawari
on Mon Aug 26, 2019 at 07:40 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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What are the chances that Chuck Todd will spend spend less time defending this administration, while it actually argues in the courts for it’s concentration camps?
The Trump administration argued in front of a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that...
by First Amendment
on Thu Jun 20, 2019 at 05:58 AM PDT
with 205 Recommends
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Lindsay Graham, once McCain’s shoe shiner, and now Trump’s bootlicker and ass kisser, went after Bernie for supporting that prisoners have the right to vote. Bernie explained racism in Graham’s home state.
It is voter suppression, and...
by TomP
on Tue Apr 23, 2019 at 11:02 AM PDT
with 220 Recommends
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Alabama’s sheriffs have been getting rich off of prisoners for decades thanks to purportedly ambiguous pre-World War II statutory language that lets them keep “excess” food funds. With that distorted incentive to keep expenditures low, sheriffs have...
by RebeccaPilarBuckwalterPoza
on Fri Jul 13, 2018 at 08:50 AM PDT
with 92 Recommends
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You’d think it was, at best, a misguided opinion piece: A Hartford Courant story decrying prisoners’ exercise of their habeas rights. To read it, you’d think these pesky hellraisers are abusing the justice system rather than exercising one of...
by RebeccaPilarBuckwalterPoza
on Thu May 10, 2018 at 02:34 PM PDT
with 71 Recommends
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El Dorado Correction Facility in Kanas is currently suffering an uprising, as inmates are refusing to return to their cells reports the Kansas Organization of State Employees Union and KSNTV.
The prison facility has been subject to serious concerns...
by Christopher Reeves
on Thu Jun 29, 2017 at 12:55 PM PDT
with 127 Recommends
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In a holding cell at the District Courts Building in Weatherford, Texas, eight men sat, shackles on both their hands and ankles. The guard watching the men had been joking with them before he suddenly slumped over unconscious.
“He just fell over,"...
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Jul 11, 2016 at 08:44 AM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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It was 1972, and I was 16 years old, and my parents took me on vacation. I picked up a book titled DAYBREAK by Joan Baez.
I read it on the plane and felt a deep connection with her. I too always felt like an outsider and lonely. When I got home I...
by Tamar Mag Raine
on Thu Jun 30, 2016 at 10:13 PM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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A public records request to the Arkansas Department of Corrections has provided me with the names of all current HIV positive prisoners in custody for violating the state’s HIV transmission laws signed into law in 1989 by Gov Bill Clinton. Of the 21...
by MPetrelis
on Mon Apr 25, 2016 at 02:35 PM PDT
with 0 Recommends
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When I read the story of Stephen Cavanaugh, a prisoner who was denied certain rights by prison officials and sued for being denied those rights, I took the time to read the judge's decision (PDF). I decided that I needed to write a letter to the judge...
by cirrocco
on Thu Apr 21, 2016 at 02:40 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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In March 2015, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) released a statement denying that law enforcement officers used any physical force against detainees and prisoners at Homan Square, the police department's secret interrogation facility. “The...
by Josie Duffy Rice
on Mon Apr 11, 2016 at 12:37 PM PDT
with 91 Recommends
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Well — I kinda don’t know what to say. A coworker of mine who is an alcoholic and well-known addicted-to-alcohol miscreant-let’s call her Bobbie-is going to jail for a long time.
This is a weird story — and since I got it from Bobbie, who can’t...
by Rosebuddear
on Sat Apr 09, 2016 at 11:14 AM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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