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Mainstream Media Ignores Mass Hunger & Work Strikes By Prisoners Nationwide
An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz, where visitors are charged a $25 to visit inmates. AUSTIN, Texas — As hunger strikes...
View ArticleChina Releases Human Rights Report On US
(REPORT) — On Thursday, China’s State Council Information Office released a human rights report on the U.S., noting that while that country continues to act as “the judge of human rights” it continues...
View ArticleNew Documentary Examines One State’s Struggle To Reform Solitary Confinement
Published in partnership with Shadowproof. “You lose all feeling. You become immune to everything,” says Sam Caison, a prisoner who has been in and out of solitary confinement. “You’re not the same...
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Media Silent As U.S. Prisoners Continue To Hunger Strike Abysmal Conditions
On Oct. 30, 2016, Robert Earl Council was found sprawled unconscious on the floor of his cell in Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being on hunger strike for 10 days. Medical staff at...
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New Documentary, Cruel And Unusual, Promises Unique Look Into Solitary...
Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The “Angola 3” spent more time in solitary confinement than any other incarcerated individuals in the United States, and now, a documentary telling their...
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Texas House Votes To Stop Jailing Those To Poor To Pay Fines
Legislation that would make it easier for poor people to satisfy traffic tickets with alternatives to payment cleared the Texas House on Tuesday on a vote of 75-70. The bill needs to be approved by...
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California Maybe Replacing Its ‘Prison-Industrial Complex’ With Something Far...
Prisoners from Sacramento County await processing after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. (AP Photo) California made headlines last week when Governor Jerry Brown allocated...
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Texas Passes Landmark Law Requiring Treatment Instead Of Jail For Mentally Ill
Jeanette Williams places a bouquet of roses at a memorial for Sandra Bland near A&M University, in Prairie View, Texas. (AP/Pat Sullivan) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday signed into law a...
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Judge Rules Texas Prisons Lack Of Air Conditioning ‘Cruel And Unusual’...
Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit’s main hallway on July 12, 2017.(Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune) ROSHARON — Just 30 miles south of the urban epicenter of Houston, the...
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Private Prison Demands 300 More Prisoners Or It Close Down
New prisoners begin the intake process by being searched – File Photo (AP/Will Shilling) New Mexico — A small community in New Mexico is learning firsthand the consequences of relying on corporate...
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An Outdated Legal System Is Punishing Minor Offenses With Decades Of Jail Time
Inmates from Sacramento County await processing after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. (AP Photo) KANSAS (Analysis)– For a nation lauding itself as the “land of the free,”...
View ArticleMassive Prison Abolition Rally Held In Washington D.C.
As white nationalists in Charlottesville and Boston provoked large, and at times, violent demonstrations, what may have been the largest gathering of abolitionists in the nation’s history took place in...
View Article‘Don’t Do Drugs:’ Inmate Dies From Opioid Withdrawal Under Controversial ACH...
The family of a deceased man who was incarcerated at Kentucky’s Bourbon County Jail has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, jail officials, and the private medical contractor Advanced...
View ArticleJustice Department Has No Idea If Their Incarceration Alternatives Work
The Justice Department is not evaluating the performance of pretrial diversion programs, residential re-entry centers, and home confinement, according to congressional testimony from the Government...
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California Maybe Replacing Its ‘Prison-Industrial Complex’ With Something Far...
Prisoners from Sacramento County await processing after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. (AP Photo) California made headlines last week when Governor Jerry Brown allocated...
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Texas Passes Landmark Law Requiring Treatment Instead Of Jail For Mentally Ill
Jeanette Williams places a bouquet of roses at a memorial for Sandra Bland near A&M University, in Prairie View, Texas. (AP/Pat Sullivan) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday signed into law a...
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Judge Rules Texas Prisons Lack Of Air Conditioning ‘Cruel And Unusual’...
Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit’s main hallway on July 12, 2017.(Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune) ROSHARON — Just 30 miles south of the urban epicenter of Houston, the...
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Private Prison Demands 300 More Prisoners Or It Close Down
New prisoners begin the intake process by being searched – File Photo (AP/Will Shilling) New Mexico — A small community in New Mexico is learning firsthand the consequences of relying on corporate...
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An Outdated Legal System Is Punishing Minor Offenses With Decades Of Jail Time
Inmates from Sacramento County await processing after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. (AP Photo) KANSAS (Analysis)– For a nation lauding itself as the “land of the free,”...
View ArticleMassive Prison Abolition Rally Held In Washington D.C.
As white nationalists in Charlottesville and Boston provoked large, and at times, violent demonstrations, what may have been the largest gathering of abolitionists in the nation’s history took place in...
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