How Much Do Prison Jobs Pay? The Reality of Labor Behind Bars in the U.S. | Inside Story ( youtu.be )
Incarcerated people are literally paid pennies per hour. This is slavery
Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies ( arstechnica.com )
Crossposted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13937769...
Pluralistic: Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits (02 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow ( pluralistic.net )
Is this kind of disaster unique to the United States?...
so this community isn't about prison abolishment, but prison reform? community name doesn't make a lot of sense.
Cops tried to arrest a whole neighborhood. This is what happened when the community fought back. ( therealnews.com )
“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates ( www.propublica.org )
Prison Abolition Art Collection ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13384872...
Impunity and Cover-Up: Correctional Officers Hang Nooses in SCI Rockview, Prisoners Speak Out! ( itsgoingdown.org )
Incarcerated Workers’ Campaigns – Anarchist Union Journal ( anarchistunionjournal.org )
Virginia governor signs bipartisan bill that limits the use of dogs to attack prisoners in the commonwealth ( www.businessinsider.com )
Final Straw: Xinachtli Speaks From A Texas Dungeon ( itsgoingdown.org )
Letter from Anarchist Prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel ( itsgoingdown.org )
FBI Raids California Prison Facing 63 Lawsuits Over Systemic Sexual Abuse ( truthout.org )
Biometrics Giant Accenture Quietly Took Over LA Residents’ Jail Reform Plan ( theintercept.com )
Germany: Ex-Red Army Faction Militant Arrested After Thirty Years Underground + The new citizen cop weapon ‘AI image search’ ( darknights.noblogs.org )
The new citizen cop weapon ‘AI image search’...
List of authors who were/are Black liberationist political prisoners & prisoners of war ( openlibrary.org )
Black authors who were/are incarcerated for pro-Black/anti-colonial/anti-neocolonial activities. (The list includes people who would be considered Black only in places that practice hypodescent.)...
Wall Street Is Finding New Ways to Milk the Prison System ( jacobin.com )
Red Army Faction militant arrested in Germany after decades on run ( www.theguardian.com )
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Book Review: Abolition as Method - Dissent Magazine ( www.dissentmagazine.org )
What Happens When Prosecutors Offer Opposing Versions of the Truth? ( www.propublica.org )
Conservative lawmakers are trying to get contraception and miscarriage to warrant a murder investigation ( slrpnk.net )
Prison Research Education Action Project - Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists ( www.prisonpolicy.org )
As Americans of varying backgrounds and ages, we are required to re-evaluate: (1) our society and its relationship to those it labels “criminal;” (2) our personal values and attitudes about prisoners and the prison system; (3) our commitment to wider social change. It is important that we learn to conceptualize how a series...
Alexey Navalny has died in a Russian penal colony in the far north ( en.wikipedia.org )
I feared he would be martyred, when he returned to Russia after getting poisoned by the FSB and helping Bellingcat track down the agents who poisoned him (nobody in power did anything about them). Back then, his life was saved by a pilot deciding to make an emergency landing and a doctor suspecting a neurotoxin....
Prison Lockdowns Are Becoming More Frequent and More Brutal Across the US ( truthout.org )
While most lockdowns are intermittent (lasting from a few days to several weeks), an increasing number of state and federal prisons keep prisoners locked down for most or even all of the year. In addition, many prisons make people suffer through constant lockdown “cycles,” where prisoners get a very brief return to normal...
Stopping the Cop Cities Countrywide ( crimethinc.com )
Since April 2021, protesters in Atlanta, Georgia have been fighting to defend Weelaunee Forest, where politicians and profiteers are attempting to build a police training compound known as Cop City. This movement has spread around the country, identifying and attacking the roots of state and corporate support for the project;...
