Tag: prison system

For more on how California’s incarcerated firefighting program works, we speak to investigative journalist Keri Blakinger, who is herself formerly incarcerated, and who recently had to evacuate her home in Los Angeles.

Trading one uniform for another.

Outrage and investigations follow the death of Robert Brooks in a violent incident at a New York prison.

This lawsuit seeks not only to compensate those who have been exploited, but also to dismantle a system that generates an estimated $450 million annually from this coerced labor.

Companies in the database are assigned a "harm score" based on their responsibility for and responsiveness to their human rights violations.

If we commit to abolishing "death-making institutions" and instead build those that are life-giving, we might not be so married to revenge and punishment.

Rose repeatedly met with inmates and received text messages from contraband prisoner cellphones in order to coordinate the scheme.

"With movements calling for defunding and divesting, people are finally talking about spending and raising the heat on the thousands of corporations that profit off the millions of people we lock up."

We are being offered an opportunity to carefully examine a destructive, expensive, punitive system and transform it into one that could be just, restorative, and good for individuals and society as a whole.

"...since this incident, our employees have received comprehensive training in crisis intervention.”