Tag: prisoners

Text messages seized by investigators show guards discussing the beating as it happened

Founded in 2013, it focuses on restorative justice, environmental stewardship, and ending food insecurity in underserved communities.

As White House talks tout a cease-fire framework and a new Gaza governance plan, fresh attacks hit al-Shifa and Al Helou and tens of thousands flee Gaza City.

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.

“When you give absolute power over life and death to government officials, they can really do what they want.”

The decision to continue to use incarcerated workers for hazardous work that could expose them to the coronavirus or facilitate the spread within the facility lies with corrections authorities and emergency management officials.

Prisoners were instead put to work behind bars making sandbags to prepare for the storm’s arrival.

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.

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.

Bill Moyers reflects on the culture of cruelty in American politics.