Tag: prison
The national prison strike is over. Now is the time prisoners...
The fact is that men and women behind bars are in most in danger in the days, weeks and months after they have dared to protest.
Update on prison strike demanding end of ‘slave labor:’ After 10...
"It’s getting something ignited in prisoners. So, prisoners know that this is – this is a climate where they can actually step up and feel supported."
Nationwide prison strike in its fourth day, reports of action coming...
"This is a human rights campaign and each of these demands should be understood through a human rights lens."
National prison strike begins: Prisoners in 17 states demand end to...
Prisoners in at least 17 states are expected to participate in the coordinated sit-ins, hunger strikes, work stoppages and commissary boycotts from today until Sept. 9.
Demanding wide-reaching reforms and an end to slavery, inmates in 17...
"Every single field and industry is affected on some level by prisons, from our license plates to the fast food that we eat to the stores that we shop at."
A children’s Gitmo on the border
It's time to do what we have failed to do for so long now: push back hard on the truly un-American policies.
Teaching ‘Les Misérables’ in prison
The novel gave them a lens to view their lives and a ruling system every bit as cruel as Hugo’s 19th-century France.
Exclusive: Photos show aftermath of lethal South Carolina prison brawl that...
The violence, which culminated in the deaths of seven prisoners, was the deadliest event of its sort in the past quarter-century in the United States.
Man framed by police for murder awarded $10M in damages
Trulove was initially sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder before his release in 2015.
Chelsea Manning: We got this
"We need to start pushing back. And the way we do that is by focusing on the systemic problems."
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.