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Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Ignored in 2014
Radical queer organizing was alive and well in the US in 2014; you just may not have heard about it in mainstream media.
Thirteen Things That We Re-Learned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2014
We are STILL in the era of “mass” and “hyper” incarceration.
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Despite Enduring a Lifetime of Violence, Kelly Savage Emerges as an In-Prison Activist
Kelly's efforts are not the first efforts to address domestic violence inside California's prisons.
In El Salvador, 17 Women Imprisoned for Miscarriage Await Pardon
Seventeen women remain imprisoned in El Salvador, charged with homicide, after suffering a miscarriage or other child delivery complication.
Stickup Kid
Alonza Thomas talks about being incarcerated at the age of 16.
Arizona Opens New $50 Million Supermax Prison; New Report Denounces State’s Use of Solitary Confinement
In written testimony, an individual describes the conditions of confinement as “horrendous.”
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Eight Ways to Support Protests Against the Criminal Punishment System, if You Can’t Get Out on the Street
Organizing is a longer-term commitment that isn't always visible, glamorous or fun.
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Dan Berger Illustrates Centrality of Prison to Civil Rights Struggle
Author Dan Berger shows how prison and carceral violence fit into structural US racism and the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s in ‘Captive Nation.’
Convicted With No Evidence by an All-White Jury, Black Community Leader Rev. Edward Pinkney Faces Life in Prison
Rev. Edward Pinkney faces life in prison on charges many claim are trumped up.
Faith, Inc. and Criminal Justice Reform
Do faith-based programs work better than programs sponsored by the government or secular community-based organizations?