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4WardEver (UK and abroad): against deaths in custody and police violence
6 and 44
Arizona Prison Watch
Attica: A Short Primer on the Uprising
Bail Bond Policy
Balancing Justice with Mercy: Interfaith Guide for Creating Healing Communities (pdf)
Between the Bars
Bradley Manning: free him!
Cali: Prisoner Hungerstrike Solidarity
Center for Church and Prison
Center for Constitutional Rights
Correct The Count.org
Critical Resistance
Dread Times
European Prisoners Children Week (Eurochips)
Execution Watch
Free Speak Blog
FREE: Family Support
Grassroots Leadership (against prison profiteering)
Harm Reduction Coalition
Hell Hole: Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker on sol. confinement
Human Rights Coalition - FedUp!
Immigrant Detention Watch
Imprisoned Women Prison Watch
InsideTime (UK)
Jail House Lawyer's Handbook
Justice for Lucasville Prisoners (OH)
Live from Lockdown
Lockup Reform
Loic Wacquant: From slavery to mass incarceration: Rethinking the ‘race question’ in the US (2002)
Louisiana Incarcerated (New Orleans Times Picayune)
Midnight Special Law Collective
National Juvenile Defender Center
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
NCTT-Cor-SHU
Nevada Prison Watch
Occupy 4 Prisoners
Omar Broadway Film
Pennsylvania Prison Watch
Prison Action Network (Building Bridges) NYState
Prison Health News
Prison Legal News
Prison Ministry Resources
Prison Policy
Prison Radio Blog
Prison Radio: contains Mumia's weekly radio columns
Prison Reform Movement
Prison Scholar Fund
Prison Sucks
Prison Watch Europe
Prisoncount
Prisoner Solidarity
Re-entry oversight article in SFBV
Real Govt: Connecting People and Government
Reprieve UK
Rosenberg Fund for Children (of Political Prisoners)
San Quentin News
Sentencing Project
Solitary Confinement Fact-Sheet on psych. effects (SolitaryWatch.com)
Solitary Survival Manual (2012)
Solitary Watch
Stop Abuse and Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Coalition
Stop Mass Incarceration
Supermaxed
The Crime Report
The Other Death Penalty
The Rest of their Lives: Juvenile Lifers (HRW)
Thousand Kites
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Unprison
US Human Rights for Prisoners March
Voices from the Cracks
Welcome Home: A Service Guide for Reentrants and Their Families
What the Folly?

California: Solitary Confinement - Urgent Petition to UN

Urgent Petition to United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention by California, United States, Prisoners in Segregation (2012)

Links to organizations for Wrongful Convictions

Activists Handbook
America´s Wrongfully Convicted
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Association in Defense of Wrongfully Convicted
Center On Wrongful Convictions
Centurion Ministries
Defending the False Accused
Freedom March USA
Friends of Justice
Harriet Tubman Literary Circle: sources to Black Political Imprisonment
Injustice Anywhere
Innocence Project
June 11: Day of Support for Eco-Prisoners
Justice Denied
Nevada Cure
Reprieve (UK) (legal help against death sentences worldwide)
The National Center for Reason & Justice
The Wrongful Convictions Project
Truth in Justice Foundation
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Education, Learning

College Guild (waiting list closed 7/2012)
Prison Education Blog (Christopher Zoukis)
Prison Scholar Fund

Coalition for Prisoners´ Rights Newsletter

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Coalition for Prisoners´ Rights Newsletter

Films about prisons

Dark Little Secret Facebook Page (pt 1 of The Great Incarcerator)
In the Land of the Free (about the Angola 3)

Pen Pal Sites

Concrete Tomb Pals
Lost Vault
Seeking Friends for Inmates

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Adnan Mirza on DemocracyNow about framing
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Disarm Plowshares Now
Free Ameer Makhoul
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Free Leonard Peltier Now
Free Mumia.org
Free Rob Will
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Free Zulu
George Skatzes: Justice and Truth
Greg Curry
Harold Thompson
Hugo Pinell
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Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson
Khader Adnan
Leon Benson
Live from Lockdown
Lost Son
Lynne Stewart
Occupy! The Beat
Ojore Behind Enemy Lines (artwork - Ojore was released in 2008)
Paul A. Redd Jr
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
Reaching our Young
Russell Maroon Shoats
Sean Swain
Zaharibu Dorrough

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San Francisco Bay View

Advocates question California’s new prisons chief - Tomorrow the Senate Rules Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for acting California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Jeffery B...
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What The Folly?!

List of the 222 House Republicans & 6 Democrats who voted for the nationwide 20-week abortion ban - List of the 222 House Republicans and 6 Democrats who voted for HR 1797 “District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” that bans abortion ...
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Between the Bars: Recent posts from all authors

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Grits for Breakfast

On celebrity, the NSA, and the hypocrisy of DOJ perjury prosecutions - Not a Texas-specific issue, but this has been bugging me: Can anyone justify why the US Justice Department (unsuccessfully) tried to prosecute "Rocket" Rog...
11 hours ago
Angola 3 News

- To all Angola 3’s devoted supporters, we’ve received some devastating news. Herman Wallace has had an initial diagnosis of liver cancer. There are still ve...
12 hours ago
Prison Culture

Guest Post: “Unpacking Chiraq 2: Repression, RICO, and War on Terror Tactics” by Nancy A. Heitzeg - Unpacking “Chiraq” #2: Repression, RICO, and War on Terror Tactics by nancy a heitzeg What does it mean to call a city a War Zone? To write entire Black an...
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Jon's Jail Journal (by Shaun Attwood)

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Live from Lockdown

Love - If no one loves me, I know I love my SELF.
19 hours ago
Democracy Now!

Glenn Greenwald: As Obama Makes "False" Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate - Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the NSA surveillance story earlier this month, joins us one day after both President Obama and whistlebl...
20 hours ago
Nevada Prison Watch

Nevada Jurisprudence and Prison Report Vol. 3, No 5 (2013) - Nevada Jurisprudence and Prison Report Vol. 3, No 5 “Veritas in Caritatis” Winter/Spring Issue 2013 THEME: “Audi alterum partem” Listen ...
21 hours ago
Sundiata Acoli Speaks - SundiataAcoli.Org - Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign (SAFC)

Cuba and the US terror Lists - Cuba and the US terror lists Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! 233 June/July 2013 http://palgrave.typepad.com/yaffe/2013/06/cuba-and-the-us-terror-lists.htm...
1 day ago
Friends of Justice

Tulia, Texas ten years on - I address the amazing events leading up to this dramatic scene in my book, Taking out the Trash in Tulia, Texas. Continue reading →
1 day ago
California Prison Watch

Letter to Warden John Katavich, Wasco State Prison, by prisoners, declaring support for, and solidarity with the hunger strike representatives - This was sent by email from Ed Mead, editor and publisher of The Rock, on June 15th, 2013: Ed, Greetings from those of us in Wasco State Prison! I wanted t...
1 day ago
Exposed

March on White House 6/17/13 Over Marijuana Arrests - Who are the victims of mass incarceration? Many are young people arrested for possession of marijuana and taxpayers who shell out roughly $50,000 per year ...
2 days ago
Lockup Reform

Current events journal: Solitary Confinement - Reblogged from Important Insights: Reading about the various types of solitary confinements present in the world today, it is safe to say that this should ...
2 days ago
BEN'S PRISON BLOG

The Stephen Fry Thing - If you want me to tell you, with utter contempt, to fuck off then don't throw any complicated insult at me. Just wait until my depression is biting and pa...
2 days ago
NIA DISPATCHES

Workshop: Understanding the Juvenile Justice System 101 – June 29 - “Understanding the Illinois Juvenile Justice System 101” is an introductory workshop that will provide basic information about the points of contact for yo...
3 days ago
Humanity for Prisoners

F is for father; F is for forgiveness - I heard a television commentator discussing fatherhood this week, as he wished all of the fathers in his audience a Happy Father's Day. He said that, as a ...
3 days ago
Solitary Watch

Seven Days in Solitary [6/16/13] - The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitar...
3 days ago
Greg Curry - NewsBlog

Demand an End to the Abuses in Guantanamo Bay, the CA SHU's and in Solitary Confinement units in OH and elsewhere! - Salute, please be encouraged to demand an end to the abuses at Guantanamo Bay or those at the SHU units in California or in Ohio or anywhere in the world. ...
4 days ago
unprison

Are you in a job or a Movement? - In the world of social justice there is a frequent reference to “The Movement.” For those weary of being characterized as a “Lefty,” they may still refer ...
4 days ago
Florida Prison Watch

Voices from Solitary: “Death Row Diary” of Florida Man Scheduled to Die Tonight - From: SolitaryWatch *Voices from Solitary: “Death Row Diary” of Florida Man Scheduled to Die Tonight* June 12, 2013 By Voices from Solitary William Van P...
5 days ago
Louisiana Prison Watch

Death row inmates sue Angola Prison over 'extreme' temperatures - From: The Times-Picayune, By: Lauren McGaughy, June 11, 2013 Three inmates on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary have filed suit in Baton Rouge...
5 days ago
Kids in the system

The Many Faces of Teacher Activism - When I was recently asked if I thought teachers today needed to be activists I didn’t hesitate in my answer. “Being a teacher, almost by definition, means ...
6 days ago
Internationalist Prison Books Collective

[URGENT] Call-In for Oso Blanco June 12-13th - From Denver Anarchist Black Cross Help a Captive Indigenous Warrior Survive! Fight Medical Neglect in U.S. Prisons! Byron Shane “Oso Blanco” Chubbuck is ...
6 days ago
Justice Roars

Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Sex Offender Registry - *From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights:* *Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on ...
6 days ago
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity

San Quentin Prisoners Vow to Join Strike and Make Demands of Their Own - Demands from the San Quentin State Prison Adjustment Center June 10, 2013 http://sfbayview.com/2013/demands-from-the-san-quentin-state-prison-adjustment-cen...
1 week ago
Justice for Lucasville Prisoners

Bomani Shakur and Staughton Lynd speak to the Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference - From SF Bay View, May 20, 2013: The Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference, held April 19-21 in Columbus, Ohio, to mark the 20th anniversary of t...
1 week ago
Campaign for Truth and Justice for Keith LaMar: Keithlamar.org

Bomani Shakur and Staughton Lynd speak to the Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference - From SF Bay View, May 20, 2013: *The Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference, held April 19-21 in Columbus, Ohio, to mark the 20th anniversary of t...
1 week ago
6and44

Blacks Are Singled Out for Marijuana Arrests, Federal Data Suggests - By IAN URBINA Published: June 3, 2013 WASHINGTON — Black Americans were nearly four times as likely as whites to be arrested on charges of marijuana posses...
1 week ago
Sketchy Thoughts

Sleep Deprivation Intensifies Torture Conditions for Prisoners in Advance of Hunger Strikes and Work Actions - Oakland— Less than a month before state-wide hunger strikes are set to resume, The California Department of Corrections has instituted a new policy at Pe...
1 week ago
Nevada-Cure - News-Blog

NV-CURE Informational Bulletin no. 4 (Summer 2013) published - Please go here to download the latest IB. Please send it to a prisoner! If you want to donate towards publication and mailing: please send us a donation vi...
1 week ago
Utah Prison Watch

ACLU of Utah files federal lawsuit over use of tear gas in prison’s mental health unit - From: Salt Lake Tribune, June 3rd 2013: ACLU of Utah says gas used in mental-health unit to subdue prisoner spread to enclosed cells. By Brooke Adams The S...
1 week ago
NCTT-Cor-SHU

Cellmate or not: Indeterminate SHU confinement is torture - Cell of Todd Ashker in PBSP Indeterminate SHU confinement is torture, and though not all those thus situated are in cells alone (some have cellies), this...
1 week ago
Pennsylvania Prison Watch

Special "SCI Cresson Investigation" Edition of HRC Report - This was reblogged from: Pennsylvania Prison Report *Special "SCI Cresson Investigation" Edition* June 6, 2013 On Friday May 31, the United States Justice ...
1 week ago
Human Rights Coalition

PA Prison Report- June 6, 2013- Special "SCI Cresson Investigation" Edition - On Friday May 31, the United States Justice Department announced that the PA Department of Corrections' use of solitary confinement of people with seriou...
2 weeks ago
SEANSWAIN.ORG

Rules Infraction Board Fails to Mount Coherent Case, Finds Swain Guilty Anyhow - On April 30th, 2013 the Mansfield Correctional Rules Infraction Board (RIB) held a hearing for Sean Swain where they again tried to make the case that he i...
2 weeks ago
Prison Watch Network

July 8th: Peaceful Protests of refusing food in CA SHU's and elsewhere will resume if demands are not met! - Please spread this flyer, thank you! Also follow NCTTCOrSHU.org, Californiaprisonwatch.org (one of our network blogs), Stopmassincarceration.org, SFBayvi...
2 weeks ago
Wyoming Prison Watch

Medical care tops inmate grievances - *This comes from: Wyoming Tribule-Eagle:* *May 27 2013* *Complaints about health care in state prisons and jails increased, according to a recently release...
3 weeks ago
Transform Now Plowshares

Support for Transform Now Plowshares resisters - Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli and Megan Rice are currently in the Irwin County Detention Facility in Ocilla, GA, awaiting their sentencing on September ...
3 weeks ago
Russell Maroon Shoats

Maroon Interviewed by Lisa Guenther, Associate Proffesor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University - Lessons on Life, Liberation from Imprisoned Activist Russell Shoatz Russell Maroon Shoatz is a former leader of the Black Panthers and the Black freedom mo...
3 weeks ago
PRISON RADIO

Call the Warden for Mutulu Shakur - Mutulu Shakur had a stroke at the end of February and is having trouble obtaining the follow-up medical care that he needs. Please call the warden at Victo...
4 weeks ago
MOVE 9 Parole 2010

- Audio of Delbert Africa of the MOVE 9: http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/delbert-africa-sci-dallas-pa
4 weeks ago
Mississippi Prison Watch

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Walnut Grove - *This is from the series in MotherJones Magazine* "A picture of such horror as should be unrealized anywhere in the civilized world." —By James Ridgeway ...
5 weeks ago
Immigrant Detention Watch

Hunger-Thirst strike in Dutch deportation centers (NL) - *People inside immigrant detention centers in The Netherlands (Rotterdam / Schiphol - Amsterdam) are on a hunger strike. Now several are also refusing to d...
5 weeks ago
Colorado Prison Watch

Advocates for Judicial Reform to Prevent Wrongful Convictions, Seek Congressional Inquiry into Missing Transcript in the IRP6 Case - *This was reblogged from here. May 7th 2013* Six executives of IRP Solutions appeal their criminal case, where they are convicted of conspiracy, mail and w...
5 weeks ago
Ohio Prison Watch

Lucasville Media Access Hunger Strike Ends - May 6th, 2013 For Immediate Release to the Public From: Siddique Abdullah Hasan and Gregory Curry: Lucasville Media Access Hunger Strike Ends [click on l...
5 weeks ago
Illinois Prison Watch

Tamms Prison Project Makes Prisoners' Dreams Come True (PHOTOS) - *From: The Daily Beast, May 6, 2013:*“Photo Requests From Solitary” was one of many projects launched by Tamms Year Ten to build publicity for the campai...
1 month ago
Jalil Muntaqim - Behind the Walls

- Blog #20 *Blow-Back?!* Reading the Saturday, April 13, 2013, issue of the New York Times, I came across an article, “Rights Groups, in Letter to Obama, Qu...
1 month ago
4strugglemag

Introduction to Issue 22: Resisting Sexism, Homophobia and Transphobia - Hello readers, new and old, activists and fellow revolution- aries, welcome to the Spring 2013 issue of 4sm. We have a lot of useful and important informat...
1 month ago
Prison Watch for Imprisoned Women

New message from Jaan Laaman for Lynne Stewart - *This comes via email and can also be found here, written by: Jaan Laaman,* * * *Sign the PETITION for Lynne Stewart here: https://www.change.org/petitions...
1 month ago
Arizona Prison Watch

May 13, 2013 TUCSON: 30 years of CCA is nothing to celebrate! - BUILD COMMUNITIES, Arizona - NOT PRISONS! *30 Years of Corrections Corporation of America:* *Nothing to Celebrate* This year, Corrections Corporation...
1 month ago
Building Bridges

- ** *Total Interviews* *# Released* *# Denied* *Rate of Release* 23 Initials 6 17 26% 95 reappearances 33 62 35% 118 total 39 79 33% *MARCH Initial Relea...
1 month ago
Solidarity with Virginia Prison Hunger Strikers

Another Brief Wallens Ridge Hunger Strike Update: - A legal privileged phone call was made on Friday with the Hunger Strike leader. He said that on Tuesday he was isolated by the C/O's, stripped of his clo...
1 month ago
Virginia Prison Watch

Hunger Strike Begins at Wallens Ridge State Prison - *From: Solidarity with Virginia Prison Hunger Strikers* April 16, 2013 On Monday, April the 15th it was brought to the attention of the Solidarity with Vi...
2 months ago
FLASHPOINTS

Tuesday April 9th 2013 - Today on Flashpoints: A frontline report on an Exxon oil spill that continues to wreak havoc on an Arkansas neighborhood, and endanger the lives of many lo...
2 months ago
Kentucky Prison Watch

Trapped: The Story of the Mentally Ill in Prison - *This is an article from: Slate*, April 1st 2013, By David Rosenberg When photographer Jenn Ackerman spent her first day at the Kentucky State Reformatory ...
2 months ago
stopsolitary

Update: Daniel McGowan - Environmental Activist Daniel McGowan Picked Up from Halfway House, Taken Back to Prison April 4, 2013 | Center for Constitutional Rights Action May Be Rel...
2 months ago
Free Zulu

Prison rape: Sexual torture - *by Kenny Zulu Whitmore* Revolutionary greetings, my people. Prison is a lonely, dark, cruel reality where you immediately become trapped in a time warp on ...
2 months ago
Brandon ´s Blog

Please Help! We have launched our Campaign for Brandon for his Re-entry Fund on Indiegogo - http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-for-brandon-on-his-return-to-society Short SummaryWe are two friends of Brandon Green, who has been incarcerate...
2 months ago
Seeking Friends for Inmates

Michael Johnson (NV) - I'm a very enthusiastic, trustworthy, caring, Black male, seeking Friendship. The thought of meeting someone positive gives me an energetic thrill of excitem...
2 months ago
Maryland Prison Watch

Maryland Death Penalty: Lawmakers Approve Measure To Ban Capital Punishment - From Huffington Post: March 15, 2013 The Maryland General Assembly approved a measure Friday to repeal the state's death penalty. The House of Delegates v...
3 months ago
New Mexico Prison Watch

Man left in solitary confinement for 2 years gets $15.5 million settlement - This comes from NBC News, March 6th, 2013, see the article for the photo of Mr Stephen Slevin. By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News A man who spent...
3 months ago
Rhode Island Prison Watch

Judge Rules That Retaliation Lawsuit Against Department of Corrections Can Proceed - *A press release by the ACLU: * March 1, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org A federal judge yesterday refused to dismiss an...
3 months ago
Private Prison Information Act of 2013

Private Prison Transparency Campaign Finds Unlikely Ally - *Reform*—a London-based, pro-market think tank receiving contributionsfrom UK private prison giants G4S and Serco—recently released a report entitled “...
3 months ago
Oregon Prison Watch

Kevin Rashid Johnson and Oregon's Isolation Torture Unit - On the blog Sketchy Thoughts, we read more background information about Virginia prisoner Rashid Johnson, incarcerated in Snake River Intensive Management ...
3 months ago
COYOTE CALLING

Books are our real weapons - This was written for and published in: Nevada Prisoners' Newsletter #13 (2013) [to be uploaded] Before I make my statement, and bring to the attention or E...
3 months ago
Tennessee Prison Watch

Comments of The Sentencing Project on Restoring Voting Rights in Tennessee - From: The Sentencing Project, Feb 20-21st, 2013: Tennessee is among the most punitive states in the nation in denying voting rights to citizens who have c...
3 months ago
Stop the Torture Campaign |

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! The post Hello world! appeared first on Stop the Torture Campaign.
3 months ago
Chagos Gulag Watch

Conférence sur Chagos à Saint-Paul, La Réunion - Mercredi 20 février 2013 à 18h15, à l’Espace Leconte de Lisle à Saint-Paul, le professeur André Oraison donnera une conférence programmée par les « Amis de...
4 months ago
New York Prison Watch

Prisoners Tortured Daily in New York State - This is an article in the February issue of Peace Newsletter, posted by the Syracuse Peace Council: From the February 2013 PNL #821 by Amelia Ramsey-Lefev...
4 months ago
Washington Prison Watch

AT&T to pay Washington prisoners’ families $45 million in telephone class action settlement - From the Seattle Times, Feb. 3 2013 Posted by Jonathan Martin AT&T has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit involving collect calls made from Washingto...
4 months ago
Michigan Prison Watch

Sending juveniles to prison for life unconstitutional, federal judge rules - From: Detroit Free Press: Jan. 30th 2013 By L.L. Brasier, Detroit Free Pree Staff Writer A federal judge ruled unconstitutional Michigan laws that send juve...
4 months ago
Federal Prison Watch

Federal Bureau of Prisons to Undergo Review of Solitary Confinement Practices - This is from a very reliable source for solitary confinement news, SolitaryWatch: Feb. 5th 2013 By Jean Casella and James Ridgeway Cell at ADX federal su...
4 months ago
Grassroots Leadership Blog

Humpday Hall of Shame: 30 Years of CCA - Welcome to The Hump Day Hall of Shame: Every Wednesday we highlight the private prison industry’s influence on public policy through campaign contribution...
4 months ago
Vermont Prison Watch

Vermont: One Tiny State’s Movement to Ban Private Prisons - By: Jonathan Leavitt, From: Toward Freedom Thursday, 24 January 2013 Vermont, the most progressive state in America, spent over $14 million last year to lo...
4 months ago
Delaware Prison Watch

Delaware Complies with Prison Reforms - Jan. 1st 2013, From: WBOC: *DOVER,* Del. - The U.S. Justice Department says the state of Delaware has instituted reforms at its state prisons and the U.S. ...
4 months ago
Oklahoma Prison Watch

Oklahoma prisons: 99.2% filled - *Oklahoma prisons: Situation normal, all filled up* Jan. 28th 2013 From: *Tulsa World.* The Legislature needs to grant Department of Corrections Director J...
4 months ago
Kansas Prison Watch

Mentally ill in Kansas prisons more than double since 2006 - From the Topeca-Capital Journal Jan. 26, 2013 Brownback reallocates $10M for mental health initiative *By Tim Carpenter* Republican Sen. Steve Fitzgerald i...
4 months ago
Hawaii Prison Watch

Governor plans to re-open Big Isle prison by 2014 - *This comes from: Hawai'i News Now* Jan. 23rd 2013 Lisa Kubota HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - Governor Neil Abercrombie announced in his State of the State speech...
4 months ago
West Virginia Prison Watch

New study: Fix W.Va. prisons this way - From: Charleston Gazette, jan. 22nd 2013, by Phil Kabler Plan can reduce inmate population and save money, panel says. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A nonpartisan ...
4 months ago
North Dakota Prison Watch

North Dakota's oil boom also brings boom in prison population - From: Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Jan. 25th 2013 BISMARCK, N.D. -- North Dakota's soaring oil production has led to record population in the state. And tha...
4 months ago
Iowa Prison Watch

Iowa’s falling prison population not necessarily a good thing - From: Iowa Watchdog Jan. 18th 2013 By Graham Gillette | Special Contributor to Iowa Watchdog DES MOINES — John Baldwin, director of the Iowa Department of...
4 months ago
Prison Watch Europe

Liberté pour les prisonniers de Villiers-le-Bel: 1st of February, Paris - "Liberté pour les prisonniers de Villiers-le-Bel" le vendredi 1er février 2013 à la Gare Expérimentale à Paris. Projections, prises de parole, tables de ...
5 months ago
Indiana Prison Watch

Ind. scrambles to address ruling on mentally ill inmates - *This article comes from USAToday, Jan. 2nd 2013, written by: Tim Evans:* * * INDIANAPOLIS -- Weeks after a doctor at an Indiana prison determined a suicida...
5 months ago
Texas Prison Watch

Held Without Retrial for 11,800 Days, Texas Inmate Still Waits for Justice - From: The Atlantic, Jan. 7th 2013, by Andrew Cohen *A convicted murderer was granted a new trial in 1980. He never got one. So what's he still doing in a ...
5 months ago
Occupy4Prisoners

Chowchilla Freedom Rally - Occupy4Prisoners has endorsed this amazing event, and is hosting a benefit to support it. Please come to both if you can, and help spread the word! Contact...
5 months ago
Idle No More

Idle No More: Idle No More Has New Look... -
5 months ago
TBIJ » All Stories

Yemen: reported US covert actions 2013 - *Dataset:* US resumes targeting of alleged militants within days of the year's start.
5 months ago
Arkansas Prison Watch

Inside the Prison Journal of West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols - From: The Daily Beast Dec. 31st 2012 In the new documentary ‘West of Memphis,’ Damien Echols tells the story of how he was wrongly convicted of a heinous ...
5 months ago
Georgia Prison Watch

Within week, 2 die at Hays State Prison in Trion, Ga. - *From: Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dec 28th 2012* Dec 28, 2012 (Menafn - Chattanooga Times Free Press - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTE...
5 months ago
No to Military Trials for Civilians

Press Release >> The Presidency Lies - Arabic translation نسخة مترجمة من البيان 23-12-2012 *They said the new constitution “prohibits civilian trials before military courts”* * * *They lied....
5 months ago
Official Site for Doneale Feazell

Much More to come - The facts in this case will be posted along with trial transcripts
6 months ago
Voices From the Cracks

Freezing Inmates, Squandered Funds, and Lack of Education Still Issues at Maine State Prison - December 14, 2011 [name omitted] 807 Cushing Road Warren ME 04864 Sophie Inchains P.O. Box 2900 S. Portland ME 04106 Dear Sophie, I haven’t written you in ...
6 months ago
Justice for Paul A. Redd Jr

Introduction to Paul's case - To: the Peoples From: Paul A. Redd Jr B-72683 D2-117 P.O. Box 7500 Crescent City, California, 95532 My name is Paul Redd Jr. I am an African American pris...
7 months ago
Alabama Prison Watch

Alabama's segregation for inmates with HIV faces court scrutiny - From: Reuters Sept. 17th 2012 By Verna Gates (Reuters) - Alabama, one of two U.S. states that segregate inmates with HIV from the rest of their prison pop...
8 months ago
Lost in the System

St. Paul Police Officer Kicking Unarmed Defenseless Man In The Throat! - see VIDEO http://www.v103.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=423478&article=10383429#.UD-b_5rZAcg.facebook
9 months ago
North Carolina Prison Watch

Support for NC Hunger Strikers: Sign Petition - Please sign here: http://www.change.org/petitions/nc-prisoners-on-hunger-strike# See also: Solitarywatch of August 1, 2012 and here at Internationalist ...
10 months ago
Wisconsin Prisoner Voice

Mother forms foundation for female inmates - From: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 17 2012 In the face of every female prisoner in Wisconsin, Alice Pauser sees her daughter: A woman who committed a cr...
11 months ago
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee

San Jose: Honoring Leonard Peltier, 26 June Event - Honoring Leonard Peltier 36 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment - Let's Bring Him Home NOW! Tuesday 26th June 2012 *6:00 pm* Theodore Lenzen Park corner o...
1 year ago
Maine Prison Watch

National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners: Feb 20th - Website: Occupy4Prisoners.org Read the book by Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness *Statements from Pe...
1 year ago
On the Block.

Dr. Johanna Fernandez of Educators for Mumia Abu Jamal Speaks on the Latest Developments in Mumia Abu Jamal Case - Interview_with_Johanna_Fernandez.mp3 Listen on Posterous On Wednesday, December 7th, Philadelphia's District Attorney's Office announced that it will n...
1 year ago
Prison Education Blog

Literacy, Education and Rehabilitation Act - By Christopher Zoukis In the past month much has come about through legislative action. The crack cocaine law has been passed giving hope to thousands a...
1 year ago
South Carolina Prison Watch

Marie Deans saved lives that society scorned - Marie Deans saved lives that society scorned Advocate for death row inmates passed away in March May. 16, 2011 By Colman McCarthy Facing certain death, 34...
2 years ago
New Jersey Prison Watch

the Desaparecidos of 9/11 - A friend passed these lyrics on to me today in remembrance of those most forgotten from the tragedy on 9/11/2001. Grief was spoken in our country in ma...
2 years ago
Massachusetts Prison Watch

the Desaparecidos of 9/11 - A friend passed these lyrics on to me today in remembrance of those most forgotten from the tragedy on 9/11/2001. Grief was spoken in our country in ma...
2 years ago
New Hampshire Prison Watch

Corrections officer union head told he'll be charged - July 15, 2010 By Nancy West The Union Leader MANCHESTER, N.H. — The president of the state corrections officer union says he has been notified he will be a...
2 years ago
Connecticut Prison Watch

Comix from Inside: Connecticut artist featured - On the Real Cost of Prisons website, imprisoned artists are featured who have made comix about prison life and criticism of the Prison Industrial Complex. ...
3 years ago
Missouri Prison Watch

Mo. Senate backs plan to shrink prison population - April 15, 2010 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Missouri senators narrowly approved legislation Thursday designed to save millions of dollars by keeping people conv...
3 years ago
Nebraska Prison Watch

Prison guards suspended after Facebook posts about using force - Source. JournalStar.com By CORY MATTESON / Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2010 Three prison guards have been suspended over a conv...
3 years ago
Minnesota Prison Watch

Prisoners of the system - Of all the social justice issues we hear about in the media, few seem to be getting less coverage than the American prison system. Many justice groups like...
3 years ago
Alaska Prison Watch

Rethinking Alaska’s Corrections Policy AVOIDING AN EVERYDAY CRISIS - From the fall of 2008 to the spring of 2009, the ACLU of Alaska conducted a survey of prisoners in the Alaska prison system in order to review conditions i...
3 years ago
Free Salim ! -

Free Salim! - It is my immense privilege and honor to be asked to write a few words about an organizer, an activist, a writer, a thinker, a comrade, a brotha who I hav...
5 years ago
Rashid

Katrina, Capitalism and Continuing Black Crisis in America (2005) - By Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, Minister of Defense New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter Hurricane Katrina brought the twisted illogic of capitalist...
7 years ago
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