New public health research on women’s prisons exposes medical neglect, sexual violence and inhumane living conditions.
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By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost As a man of African American descent who has studied and learned the truth about American history— the real truth about the real history of this country—I have learned about the death penalty—how it was and continues to be used and misused on poor and Black people especially. […]
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This is a talk Chris Hedges gave on April 6 at a protest at Princeton Theological Seminary demanding the removal of hedge fund billionaire Michael Fisch as chair of the seminary's trustee board.
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Prisoners in Washington State are renewing their fight to democratize education amid new restrictions threatening their decade-old program.
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How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison.
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The Bureau of Prisons proposal would automatically deduct three quarters of money sent to prisoners—today is the last day to submit a public comment opposing this measure.
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If we don’t care about prisoners on any normal day, then why would we care about them when a pandemic is spreading through the system?
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Prisoner-turned-journalist Eddie Conway talked about how the immorally cheap labor of those caught in the prison industrial complex is the shame of the U.S. economy.
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