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Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men
One jailhouse informant for the Detroit Police Department sent a 19-year-old man to prison in 1994. Without a retrial, he won't get out until he's 71.
The Poor Get Prison: The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty
This report provides a new understanding of the growing ways in which those in poverty are disproportionately targeted, marginalized, and prosecuted.
Organizations Urge Federal Consumer Agency to Protect Former Prisoners From Excessive Fees
Groups comment on proposed rule regarding prepaid debit cards.
Organizations Urge Federal Consumer Agency to Protect Former Prisoners From Excessive Fees
Groups comment on proposed rule regarding prepaid debit cards.
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Crosscurrents: Refusing “Safety” and Recommitting to Each Other
If we seek our security in treating other people fairly, we may find our way to decent lives.
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Voices From Solitary: “I Am Somebody’s Daughter“
The following account is by Nicole Natschke, who is currently held in the segregation unit at Illinois's Logan Correctional Facility.
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The Possibility of Escape
We can choose not to be jailers, and choose, instead, to be ever more inflexible in our resistance to injustice and to hatred born of fear.
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“Guantanamo Diary”: A Tale of Captivity, Rendition and Torture
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's recently published Guantanamo Diary describes his brutal treatment at the US prison, where he remains, uncharged.
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Beyond Reform: Essays Call for a Sweeping Reassessment of Incarceration
The journal Socialism and Democracy's collection of essays demonstrates why we need to go beyond various justice system reform proposals - valuable as they are - to a much …
There’s So Much Life Here: A Death Row Prisoner Looks Back on Over 20 Years in Solitary Confinement
Keith LaMar has been in solitary confinement for more than 21 years.