Tag: prison system
‘We’re broken’: As federal prisons run low on food and toilet...
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
Prison labor in the spotlight as incarcerated California firefighters risk lives...
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.
14 guards beat Robert Brooks to death at New York prison...
Outrage and investigations follow the death of Robert Brooks in a violent incident at a New York prison.
Behind bars and beyond burgers: Exposing Alabama’s prison labor exploitation
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.
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.
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Why is Trump slowly losing his mind? Epstein bombshell coming, jail cell awaits him
Right now, Trump is operating like a madman, ripping and tearing our democracy apart and having the Supreme Court turn our Constitution into nothing more than a useless wad of paper.
Judge blocks ICE retaliation in Minnesota as protests escalate and federal force looms
A federal injunction curbing ICE conduct follows the killing of a legal observer, mounting allegations of constitutional violations, and threats of military deployment under Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Why are immigration ‘judges’ working for DOJ aka the PROSECUTION?
“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States. It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave. It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” –Federal Immigration Judge Ubaid ul-Haq
Trump’s dementia addled plan to invade Greenland violates the NATO treaty
Why are Republicans orchestrating this ‘gunboat diplomacy’ with the intent of–a rapist?
Federal agents invoke Renee Good’s killing to intimidate protesters in Minnesota
Videos, eyewitness accounts, and a sweeping state lawsuit show federal agents repeatedly referencing Renee Nicole Good’s death during confrontations with civilians as Minnesota seeks to halt a massive immigration enforcement surge.