Jailhouse Lawyers Speak: One Year Since Seven Fell in South Carolina
This April 15, 2019 will mark one year since the unnecessary and preventable deaths of 7 people.
This April 15, 2019 will mark one year since the unnecessary and preventable deaths of 7 people.
The RI DOC has held four men for over ten days in solitary confinement for allegedly possessing union literature. All four are being denied access to legal documents, rehabilitative and therapeutic programs, adequate medical care, and contact with their families and supporters is limited to a single ten-minute phone call each day.
Earlier this month, the city of New York and the world watched detainees at MDC Brooklyn freeze in their cells during the most recent polar vortex. People were in awe that this high-tec, modern-day dungeon - with both the Statue of Liberty and Wall Street in view as testaments to hypocri$y - would be so crass, so brutal, so inhumane.
Recently leaked videos taken February 14th and 15th show fights between prisoners breaking out in a yard at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, CA. After firing tear gas at the fighting prisoners, the video shows COs encircling the prisoners, but not providing aid or intervening.
New Website Launches, Documenting a Decade of Prisoner Protests
“The prison industrial complex has created a kind of ‘third-world colony’ right here in the United States. Prison systems outsource prisoners for slave labor to major corporations for pennies per day. Prisoners perform data entry and work auto industry jobs that used to belong to free-world workers.
Grey suit protection: Ellis Unit guards admit assaulting prisoners, but aren't held accountable
By Jason Renard Walker