Tag: prison system
New data tool details thousands of corporations profiting from US prison...
Companies in the database are assigned a "harm score" based on their responsibility for and responsiveness to their human rights violations.
What does accountability look like without punishment?
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.
Prison official charged with smuggling drugs into correctional institution
Rose repeatedly met with inmates and received text messages from contraband prisoner cellphones in order to coordinate the scheme.
The US spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3...
"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."
What COVID-19 reveals about incarceration and how we can transform the...
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.
Video reveals mother of 5 starving to death in jail cell
"...since this incident, our employees have received comprehensive training in crisis intervention.”
Higher education in America’s prisons: 4 essential reads
Research shows that providing education to such young men – and young women – when they become incarcerated makes them less likely to return to prison.
Reconsidering criminal punishment
We know that the prison system is expensive to maintain and not particularly effective. So what are other solutions to crime?
Prisons are not the answer to preventing crime
Rather than getting tough on crime, justice agencies need to get smart on crime.
No more crime and punishment: The national prison strike of 2018,...
“This is a growing movement and the Nationwide Prison Strike of 2018 is an unparalleled success for prisoner organizing in the modern era."
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Behold, the new GOP culture wars
The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being.
White House says GOP bill would force ‘one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts’...
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," said a White House spokesperson.
Outrage as Biden Administration recommends major Alaska oil project
"The project is “drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy,” but that “it’s not too late for him to step up and pull the plug on this carbon bomb."
‘More training’ is not the answer to police terror
The death of Tyre Nichols doesn’t have to be in vain – there are numerous opportunities for action at the local and national level to rein in out of control police terror.
How corporations hope to eviscerate workers’ right to strike
Corporations so fear this kind of worker power that they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rig the scales and help them kill future strikes before they even begin.