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On Anniversary of Hunger Strike Pelican Bay Prisoners in Solitary Confinement See No Change Request Intervention of CA Governor
A year after their hunger strike, prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of Pelican Bay State Prison send an open letter to Governor Jerry Brown expressing their frustration …
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Taxpayers Spend Millions on Valley Fever in Prisons
Californians are locked into contributing to the cost of treating state inmates sickened by valley fever.
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How Speculating on Prisons Leads to Mass Incarceration
It's certainly one strategy to fulfill an unmet need; it's another to produce one.
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European Court Ruling Opens Door for Extradition to Torture Conditions in US Federal Prisons
What is happening to Muslims will happen to the rest of us.
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Youngest Guantanamo Detainee Goes Home to Canada
Omar Khadr spent ten years, from the age of 15, at the Pentagon's prison camp in Cuba.
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Haitian Political Prisoner Released, Says Repression Likely to Continue
Two weeks ago, a weary looking yet jubilant David Oxygu00e8ne stepped out of the prison building into a throng of supporters.
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New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard
Legislative limitations on New Yorku2019s ability to impose sentences of solitary confinement are required to end its excessive and inhumane overuse in our Stateu2019s prisons.
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Is Life Without Parole Worse Than Death?
I am an alienist reincarnated, and poetry keeps me sane.
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Will AB 2530 Unshackle Childbirth in California?
Pregnant women in correctional facilities are more likely to experience miscarriage, preterm birth, low birth weight infants, and potentially fatal conditions like preeclampsia.
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California Spends More on Jails Than Higher Education
As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than …