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Breaking Out of the Prison Paradigm
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Statement of Support for the Short Corridor Collective and Other Prisoners in Resistance in California Prisons
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and the Civilian Soldier Alliance celebrate the resistance demonstrated by California prisoners at the suspension of their third hunger strike organized to protest …
How Lockup Quotas and “Low-Crime Taxes” Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations
The report sheds light on the for-profit private prison industryu2019s reliance on high prison populations, and how they directly benefit its bottom line.
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The Cuban Five Case at 15 Years
The U.S. imprisoned five Cuban spies who sought to disrupt terror attacks being planned in Miami, as Dennis J Bernstein and Danny Glover discuss.
Free the Cuban Five: 15 Years of Unjust Imprisonment
The U.S. government was fully aware that the men had no weapons and had never harmed any individual.
Anti-Drone Protestors Refuse Fines, Sentencing Statements
Judge Carolyn Delaney listened to passionate statements by the defendants, who told the judge they were willing to go to federal prison rather than pay any fines or accept …
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Black America and A New Freedom Budget
The authors of a new book demonstrate how we need immediate, radical change as the lives of the majority of Americans become more insecure and less hopeful every day.
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A Call to Be Treated “Justly and Humanely“
Pelican Bay Prison hunger striker Lorenzo Benton deconstructs and lambastes California Department of Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard's contentions that the hunger strike (which ended Thursday), is gang-instigated and enforced, …
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California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days
California's mass prison hunger strike ended on Day 60 after two state legislators issued statements of public support for reform of conditions that have had hundreds locked in solitary …
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Shouldn’t Prisoners Be Allowed to Vote?
Voting rights for prisoners and ex-felons is just the logical next step.