Tag: prisons
‘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.
Social distancing is not an option for people in prison and...
Families recount painful conversations with loved ones inside detention centers and join advocates demanding action that detainees be protected against spread of the coronavirus.
Mass incarceration: An American problem
Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.
Florida Inmates start month-long ‘laydown’ to protest ‘modern day slavery’
Inmates inside Florida's prisons are fighting back against "modern day slavery."
Plantations were prisons: Mobilizing for the Aug. 19 Millions for Prisoners...
"Prisons create and ensure an underclass."
Divest From Prisons, Invest in People—What Justice for Black Lives Really...
Instead of addressing the roots of drug addiction, mental illness, and poverty, we’ve come to accept policing and incarceration as catch-all solutions. It’s time for a change.
“End Modern Slavery!”
Inmates in prison are given opportunities to perform jobs for money in prison, however ,without getting paid anything close to living wages, they are released without the money to find housing and wind up homeless or living in shelters, making them more likely to re-offend.
The True Cost of Mass Incarceration Exceeds $1 Trillion
Ultimately, the social cost of mass incarceration is 11 times higher than total spent on the corrections system itself.
Protests Planned In Over 20 States To Expose ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions In...
Prisoners have had enough and are demanding fair pay for their labor.
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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.
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?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
The environmental and social impacts of fish farming and industrial aquaculture
Often promoted as sustainable, fish farming can increase pressure on wild fisheries, deepen global food inequities, and damage marine ecosystems.