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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.
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.
Is Life Without Parole Worse Than Death?
I am an alienist reincarnated, and poetry keeps me sane.
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 …
No Justice When Women Fight Back
All three are currently in prison while their attackers remain free. Oh, yes, and all three are black women.
A Move to Free the Cuban Five
People stop in Victorville California 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles because they have to see someone at one of its several prisons (federal, state, county and city) or …
Solitary Confinement: Torture Chambers for Black Revolutionaries
An estimated 80,000 men, women and even children are being held in solitary confinement on any given day in US prisons.
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The Fight Against SB 1070 and the Prison Industry in Arizona
While racist police practices, and the associated racialized discourse of criminality, have received national attention in the wake of SB 1070, they are nothing new to Arizona.