The Five Demands Of California’s 30,000 Hunger Striking Prisoners
Via Prison Photography, the Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Short Corridor Collective’s statement on the demands of the protest on behalf of which many California prisoners are willing to risk death...
View ArticleBauhaus Surrealist Prisons Of The Spanish Civil War
Not that I condone mental torture, but there is something appealing about anarchists using modern art as a weapon against the fascist war machine. From the Guardian archives: A Spanish art historian......
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Grant Morrison’s ‘Doom Patrol’: Mr. Nobody: a Savior, a Monster, an Act of...
via chycho One of the major players in the realm of comic books has been the United Kingdom, and one of its most important periods occurred in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s with the British Invasion...
View ArticleAn Excellent Lecture by Michelle Alexander on the Causes and Consequences of...
Below you will find an excellent lecture by Michelle Alexander on the racist aspect of America’s War on Drugs and the insane policies that keep this system of mass incarceration churning. “Michelle......
View ArticleThai Prisoners Earn Money and Time Off Sentences By Beating Foreigners In...
“Two men enter! One man leaves! Two men enter! One man leaves!” Via Oddity Central: In a world where prisoners’ sentences are reduced for good behavior, the rules at Klong Prem Central... The post Thai...
View ArticleCriminologist’s study shows lack of mental health care for prisoners
via ScienceDaily: New research by a UT Dallas criminologist has found that a substantial number of prison inmates have not received treatment for mental health conditions. Dr. Nadine M. Connell,...
View ArticlePrisons Are Making America’s Drug Problem Worse
“Even federal prisons know that their inmates need medication-assisted therapy. So why aren’t they changing?” asks Megan McLemore at Politico Magazine: Today, Gordon Goodwin is in federal prison in...
View ArticlePrison Sentences Based On Crimes That The Perp Is Likely To Commit In The Future
This is some scary Big Brother shit right here: Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system may soon allow judges to sentence convicts based on crimes they haven’t committed but are likely to in the... The...
View ArticleChelsea Manning Could Face Indefinite Solitary Confinement
This post originally appeared on Common Dreams. Read more of Sarah Lazare’s articles here. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, currently serving a 35-year sentence in military prison, now faces the...
View ArticleCalifornia Prisoners’ Strike a Win Against Solitary Confinement
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan write at Common Dreams: Thousands of prisoners will be moved out of solitary confinement in California, thanks to a landmark legal settlement announced this week....
View ArticleMass Incarceration Is Devastating Families, Society
The social harms of mass incarceration spread far beyond prison walls, with families enduring direct human rights abuses and women—who are disproportionately black—bearing the brunt of the poverty and...
View ArticlePrison Inmate Cuts Off His Penis and Tries to Flush it Down Toilet
Bizarre story of the day from the Telegraph: An inmate at Bristol Prison cut off his own penis and tried to flush it down a toilet, it has been revealed. The... The post Prison Inmate Cuts Off His...
View ArticleThe secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before
Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how...
View ArticleWill Potter on Communications Management Units (CMU’s) and Daniel McGowan
Will Potter, investigative journalist and author of “Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege” recently gave a TED Talk outlining his work on Communication Management...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Banish the Police and Burn the Prisons
(Originally Posted at Gods & Radicals) I could write about the newest murder committed by the police, could write about the newest life lost behind bars, but what would be the point?... The post...
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