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Prison

Guards got incarcerated people to wash their personal cars, give haircuts and shine shoes at the fundraisers.
News
Prisons & Policing

Prison Guards in Illinois Used Prison Labor to Raise Money for Golf Tournaments

Guards got incarcerated people to wash their personal cars, give haircuts and shine shoes at the fundraisers.
by
Brian Dolinar,
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April 17, 2022
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The sun shines through high security fencing surrounding Norwich Prison on August 25, 2005, in Norwich, England.
Interview
Prisons & Policing

Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done

Kelly Hayes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss organizing, extraction and time.
by
Kelly Hayes,
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April 14, 2022
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Javon Kennerson was one of dozens to die in LaSalle Corrections custody from lack of or delayed medical treatment.
News
Prisons & Policing

In an Ominous Pattern, People Are Dying Once Transferred to Louisiana Prison

Javon Kennerson was one of dozens to die in LaSalle Corrections custody from lack of or delayed medical treatment.
by
Victoria Law,
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April 10, 2022
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A prisoner is seen in Camp 6 at the Guantánamo Bay (Gitmo) maximum security detention center in Guantánamo, Cuba, on October 22, 2016.
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

Some Guantánamo Prisoners Fear Transfer to US Prisons Due to Brutal Conditions

For years, liberals have called for prisoners at Gitmo to be transferred to U.S. prisons. What if they don’t want to go?
by
John Knefel,
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March 31, 2022
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Prisoner reading letter, shining a light up at him and through the darkness around cell
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

Prison Pen Pals Chip Away at the Prison-Industrial Complex One Letter at a Time

Letters are a source of hope. Policies banning physical mail are yet another attack on incarcerated people.
by
Meghan Krausch,
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March 28, 2022
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Immigrant advocates place “Shut Down Glades” hearts at Glades County Detention Center on Valentine’s Day 2022.
News
Prisons & Policing

ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back.

In Florida, the Glades County Detention Center, like ICE itself, has shown that it cannot be reformed.
by
Rebecca Talbot &
Panagioti Tsolkas,
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March 27, 2022
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Looking through a narrow window into solitary confinement room at a prisoner, all overshadowed by a COVID molecule
News
Prisons & Policing

COVID-Fueled Solitary Confinement Still Plagues Prisons and Jails

Two years into the pandemic, prisons are still using torturous conditions over depopulating prisons to stop the spread.
by
Katie Rose Quandt &
Allison Altshule,
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March 22, 2022
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A participant holding a Defund Police sign at the protest.
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

When Biden Says “Fund the Police,” It Should Spur Our Efforts to Defund Them

Both parties are trying to exploit the movement to defund police to argue for raising law enforcement budgets.
by
Austin C. McCoy,
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March 19, 2022
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The book cover for The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison
Interview
Prisons & Policing

Prisons Aim to Stifle Creativity. Here’s a Book That Pushes Back.

“The Sentences That Create Us” is a how-to-write manual pitched perfectly for incarcerated people who want to write.
by
James Kilgore &
Brian Dolinar,
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March 15, 2022
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Daniel Muessig pled guilty on November 16, 2021, to a 100-kilo marijuana distribution conspiracy. He was sentenced on March 8, 2022, to 60 months in prison. Collage of images courtesy of Daniel Muessig
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

I’m Facing 60 Months in Prison. Cannabis Prohibition Has Destroyed My Life.

Despite his campaign promises, President Joe Biden has pardoned two turkeys — and no people.
by
Daniel Muessig,
Truthout
March 13, 2022
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