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Open Letter to WV Inmates: Beware of Private Prisons Before Signing Away Your Rights
The prisoners themselves would play a critical role in making this scheme by having to sign away their right to be incarcerated and rehabilitated within the state of West …
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Interlopers on Social Media: Feminism, Women of Color and Oppression
As women of color who identify as feminist and who engage online, we are implicated in this conversation.
States Move to Curb Outsourcing Public Services, Protect Taxpayers
Vermont and West Virginia recently introduced transparency and accountability legislation aimed at protecting taxpayersand putting them back in charge of their public services.
Stopping the Transfer of West Virginia Inmates to Private Prisons
West Virginia legislators are currently faced with deciding if the state should ship prisoners across state lines to for-profit private prisons.
Marriage in a Prison Visiting Room
A social justice activist who married a prisoner and former Black Panther tells Truthout that after seven months they've only been allowed by the prison system to hold hands.
“If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go”: Efforts to Resolve the Growing Numbers of Aging Behind Bars
By 2030, the prison population age 55 and over is predicted to be 4,400 percent more than what it was in 1981. Some state and federal prison systems look …
Gitmo 12 Years Later
It's been 12 years since the prison at Guantanamo Bay opened, and the fundamental issues of indefinite detention and perpetual war remain.
Guarded Optimism
The department has found alarming rates of abuse by staff on youngsters in custody.
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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: US Must Ensure Safety Upon Release for Guantánamo Prisoners
For many prisoners, release does not equate with freedom and can be the beginning of new misadventure, further persecution and incarceration.
Gitmo Attorneys Respond to Uighur Transfers
Slovakia has made a “profound humanitarian gesture.”