Tag: Albert Woodfox
From Solitary to the Street: Coping with Freedom After Years in...
Approximately 80,000 prisoners are currently in solitary confinement, some being held in isolation for years. Thousands of prisoners are being released from solitary confinement directly back into communities without help with coping with this major transition.
Kalief Browder, Albert Woodfox and the Torture of Solitary Confinement
There are an estimated 80,000-100,000 prisoners held in some form of solitary confinement in the United States. The United Nations says the practice often amounts to torture. It is cruel and unusual punishment, and must be abolished, once and for all.
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California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast
Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger
Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says
Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.