'Allow no escapes': leak exposes reality of China's vast prison camp network (tags)
Genocide. Under our very eyes
Fall 2015 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Alert! (tags)
Migrant’s Human Rights Violations, Syria Refugee Crisis – Proudly Made by U.S.A. + Dump the Trump!
Unconstitutional Solitary Confinement in America (tags)
police state
Minors Abused in Adult US Prisons (tags)
police state
Albert Woodfox: 41 Years in Solitary Unjustly (tags)
police state
Opponents of SB County Jail's Letter Ban to Share Progress, Next Steps (tags)
Right to Write SB has been organizing against the postcard-only policy at the Santa Barbara County Jail for a year now. Tonight at the Santa Barbara community forum, they will be talking about how this policy relates to plans for jail expansion in SB county.
Governor Jerry Brown,Who Needs Death Penalty in California Anyway When There is Isolation (tags)
We remind every American to the reality that all prison inmates are obviously not guilty & are forced to reside with real criminals !
Los Angeles NYE Noise Demo (tags)
Call out for New Year's Eve Noise Demo outside Metropolitan Detention Center, Downtown LA
Los Angeles NYE Noise Demo (tags)
In response to the global call-out for New Years Eve's noise demos at prisons, jails, and detention centers around the world, we are calling all rebels and opponents of the Prison-Industrial Complex to convergence on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles December 31st.
Herman Wallace: Free at Last (tags)
police state
Reforming Prison’s Harshest Tactic –The Angola 3 case may help change the... (tags)
The Angola 3 case may help change the arbitrary and sometimes abusive use of solitary confinement.
Lynne Stewart's Struggle for Justice Continues (tags)
police state
Buried Alive Cruel and Unusual Punishsment (tags)
torture
Palestinians Protest Israeli Prison Hell (tags)
Palestine
gulag conditions
We didn't plan on killing him, just beating the shit out of him! Honest! (tags)
Hmmm ... Will Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas also say these guys had no intention of murdering the alleged child molester they beat to death? Like he said the Fullerton pigs had no intention of murdering Kelly Thomas?
Filling Prison Beds for Profit (tags)
prisons
Sheriff Joe's Tent city jail hits 145?F ( 63°C) (tags)
If Sheriff Joe's thugs are going to lock people up outside in the heat they should at least treat them humanely. I love hot weather, but I even thought it was a bit warm yesterday, but I had no idea it hit 118°F (48°C) yesterday. For years 118°F was the record for Phoenix until we hit 120°F and then 122°F (50°C) on June 26, 1990
Sheriff Joe's Tent city jail hits 145°F (tags)
If Sheriff Joe's thugs are going to lock people up outside in the heat they should at least treat them humanely. I love hot weather, but I even thought it was a bit warm yesterday, but I had no idea it hit 118 yesterday. For years 118 was the record for Phoenix until we hit 120°F and then 122°F (50°C) maybe 20 years ago
Israel's Barbaric Solitary Confinement (tags)
same as torture
Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility (tags)
harmful incarceration
homeland prison torture
Horrific Conditions in Los Angeles County Jail (tags)
the same ongoing across America
Ahmed Abu Ali: Guilty of Being Muslim in America at the Wrong Time (tags)
Muslims are target one in America for their faith and ethnicity
The UC8 Reporter: A Personal Account of Police Abuse of Power Against a Free Press (tags)
It's hard to know where to start. I'm not used to writing stories about myself. Usually, I am the one sharing news about other people through recordings and words. I cover events and publish reports to Indybay. I often report on street demonstrations, some more rowdy than others. And while I recognize the privilege my skin-tone grants me in our society and that I have not taken the types of risks war reporters do, I know enough from having seen what's happened to other journalists over the years that I am not immune from abuses by law enforcement authorities.
Harmful Effects of Prolonged Isolated Confinement (tags)
It crushes the human spirit
Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation --An Interview With Nancy A. Heitzeg (tags)
My interest in Angola is as both a paradigm of the Southern transformation of plantations into prisons and as a prototype for what we now call the prison industrial complex. Many old plantations in the South became prisons after the Civil War. Angela Y. Davis traces the initial rise of the penitentiary system to the abolition of slavery, writing: “in the immediate aftermath of slavery, the southern states hastened to develop a criminal justice system that could legally restrict the possibilities of freedom for the newly released slaves.”
PFP Candidate Alexander Propose Releasing 50,000 California Inmates (tags)
Alexander says the most efficient means to deal with California’s over crowded prisons would require state lawmakers abolishing the Three-Strikes Law and remanding more than 30,000 non-violent offenders to their original courts for re-sentencing; however, “that will not likely occur because a majority of the state’s lawmakers are more concerned with protecting and preserving the prison industrial complex rather than dealing with this serious threat to human health and public safety.
Cancerfornia is a personal testimony, editorial, and letter all in one. It is in regard to the abuses and crimes being committed inside of our prison system, and my own personal solution for what must be done.
Treatment of Imprisoned Muslims at Terre Haute's Communications Management Unit (CMU) (tags)
Targeting Muslims for their faith and charity.
Obama proving no different from Bush
The Persecution of Syed Fahad Hashmi (tags)
Muslim persecution continues
JUDICIAL INJUSTICES BEING INFLICTED ON POORER AMERICANS NEEDS....C*H*A*N*G*E...... (tags)
SENATOR OBAMA PLEASE LET THIS COUNTRIES VOTERS KNOW YOUR FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT A NEEDED FUTURE REPAIR AND RENOVATION OF OUR BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT CONTINUES TO ALLOW THE EXECUTION'S OF EVEN POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN’S LIKE TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA ?????
SENATOR CLINTON TAKES THE LEAD IN AMERICA'S FUTURE JUDICIAL SYSTEM ?? (tags)
A FUTURE JUDICIAL TASK FORCE DESIGNED TO HELP BRING THE NEED CHANGE IN AMERICA'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM WOULD FARE VERY WELL UNDER MRS.CLINTON'S DIRECTION !
SURELY OUR US SUPREME COURT KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MURDER & EXECUTION IN GEORGIA ? (tags)
OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD CONTINUE TO DENY AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION EVEN THOUGH WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS & FALSE INCARCERATIONS CONTINUE ALL ACROSS AMERICA ?????????????????
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WATCHES USA EXECUTE POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN IN AMAZEMENT ! (tags)
THE US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD CONTINUE TO DENY AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION EVEN THOUGH WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS & FALSE INCARCERATIONS CONTINUE ALL ACROSS THE USA ?????????????????
YES SENATOR,SPEAK FROM YOPUR HEART & THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL TRUST YOUR LEADERSHIP ?? (tags)
THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD WITH THE # 1 ECONOMY IN THE WORLD , DO NOT WANT TO OFFER REAL JUSTICE TO EVERY AMERICAN WITHIN OUR US JUDICIAL SYSTEM ???
SENATOR OBAMA, PLEASE GIVE AMERICA ~ A DOSE OF REALITY ON THIS HORROR !!! (tags)
WHERE ALSO ARE OUR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS ??
SENATOR OBAMA, PLEASE GIVE AMERICA ~ A DOSE OF REALITY ON THIS HORROR !!! (tags)
WHEN AMERICANS WERE TOLD THE TRUTH BY THIS BLACK LEADER, WHO WENT ON TO BECOME A US PRESIDENT ???
SENATOR OBAMA, THIS HORROR CAN NO LONGER STAY HIDDEN FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE !!! (tags)
WHEN AMERICANS WERE TOLD THE TRUTH BY THIS BLACK LEADER, WHO WENT ON TO BECOME A US PRESIDENT !!!
THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD AWAITS SENATOR OBAMA'S LEADERSHIP ON THIS US JUDICIAL INJUSTICE?? (tags)
THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA MIGHT ALSO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS POSSIBLE FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING HIS BIGGEST SUPPORTERS???
SENATOR OBAMA, PLEASE TELL AMERICA HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS US JUDICIAL INJUSTICE ?? (tags)
I WOULD THINK THAT AMERICA'S VOTING BLACK COMMUNITY NATIONWIDE IS ENTITLED TO HEAR FROM SENATOR OBAMA ABOUT THIS HORROR AFFECTING OUR POORER AMERICAN BLACKS ???
WHERE ARE AMERICA'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS ? (tags)
* SADLY THIS REPRESSIVE JUDICIAL INJUSTICE HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM !!! WHEN GOD'S FACE BECAME VERY RED ??
PRINCE CHARLES,PLEASE HELP US RESCUE OUR FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED AMERICANS ? (tags)
WILL THE ROYAL FAMILY COME TO THEIR RESCUE ?? ENEMY COMBATANTS ARE GIVEN FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS,AND OUR AMERICAN INNOCENT ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN US PRISONS NATIONWIDE !!!
WILL THE POPE AND NELSON MANDELLA ALSO HELP OPRAH CHAMPION THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ? (tags)
WHEN GOD'S FACE BECAME VERY RED !!!
IS NELSON MANDELA NEEDED IN AMERICA TO CHANGE THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ? (tags)
WHEN GOD'S FACE TURNED RED !
ENEMY COMBATANTS GET HC RIGHTS,BUT NOT POORER AMERICANS ???? (tags)
ENEMY COMBATANTS ARE GIVEN FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS,AND POORER AMERICANS ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION ????????
BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA ARE ALSO INVITED TO HELP OPRAH CHAMPION THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ! (tags)
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL APPEALS !!!
WHOOPI GOLDBERG WILL ALSO HELP OPRAH CHAMPION THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ! (tags)
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL APPEALS !!!
WILL TOM HANKS HELP OPRAH CHAMPION THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ? (tags)
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL APPEALS !!!
WILL MADONNA HELP OPRAH CHAMPION THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ? (tags)
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL APPEALS !!!
WILL ED ASNER HELP OPRAH CHAMPION THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ? (tags)
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL APPEALS !!!
WILL KOBE BRYANT HELP OPRAH CHAMPION THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ? (tags)
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL APPEALS !!!
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !!! (tags)
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !!! (tags)
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
WILL AMERICANS HELP SUPPORT OUR INNOCENT AMERICAN INMATES ? (tags)
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SLOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EASY IT IS FOR MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR US JUDICIAL SYSTEM.
When God's Face Turned Very Red ! (tags)
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAID NO MORE INJUSTICE !
GED LAWYERS NEVER LEAVE US PRISONS !!! (tags)
WHEN GOD'S FACE BECAME VERY RED !
GIVE THEM LIBERTY OR GIVE THEM LAWYERS !! (tags)
WHICH AMERICANS ARE INTERESTED IN PROTECTING OUR INNOCENT US PRISON INMATES RIGHT TO BEING AFFORDED PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ?
THE US CONGRESS IS HOLDING 100,000 INNOCENT AMERICAN PRISON INMATES HOSTAGE !! (tags)
NO $$ NO JUSTICE NO LOBBY, NO US SENATE ASSISTANCE ! NO $$ NO LOBBY == 100,000 INNOCENT AMERICANS FALSELY IMPRISONED IN US. ****TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN PRISON INMATES NEED INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR LEGAL FEES IN HELPING THEM ATTEMPT TO EXONERATE THEMSELVES FROM THE US PENAL COLONIES !!
FBI, California Attorney General Investigating Orange County Sheriff’s Dept. (tags)
The investigations are expected to not only look into the death of John Derek Chamberlain and determine if his civil rights were violated but is expected to probe much deeper into the over all possible misconduct of the Sheriff’s dept in general.
Why building another transitional home for inmates will do nothing for society. But there is hope, for something else.
Help a government bureaucrat - buy goods made with slave labor (tags)
Buy goods made with slave labor and help government bureaucrats in Maryland live lives of luxury. Remember the inmates are paid 10 to 20 cents an hour but the State of Maryland is charging you market prices which allows them to make a fantastic profit! Ain't slave labor great!
Steep phone rates cut off youth offenders from home (tags)
It’s not about rehabilitating juvenile delinquents! It’s about shaking down the kids parents for money!
Bill Clinton's "Killer Prison Blood" Scandal - (tags)
BAD BLOOD Canadian media, including the Calgary Sun and Ottawa Citizen, are reporting that tainted blood from Arkansas prisons made its way to a Montreal blood broker in the 1980s when Bill Clinton was governor. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating. At the time, American sources were not accepting prisoners' blood because of possible HIV contamination. OTTAWA CITIZEN
Meth Law Could Double Neb. Prison System (tags)
Victimless drug war crimes continue to be the main reason the Amerikan police state jails people. - Nebraska will have to double the size of its prison system to accommodate inmates caused by the state's new methamphetamine law
Rights group: Prison dogs cruel and degrading (tags)
The use of attack dogs against prisoners here in the U.S.has been a well-kept secret,"
Prisons: Alexander Wants 50K Inmates Released (tags)
Governor Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency to reduce the over crowed conditions in California prisons; and under the governor’s proclamation 5,000 inmates will be transferred to other states. Stewart Alexander, with the Peace and Freedom Party, says the governor’s plan is doomed to failure before the first prisoner is transferred out of state. “Under the governor’s plan eventually California will need prison space in all 50 states."
California May Ship Inmates Elsewhere (tags)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Wednesday in California's critically crowded prisons, a step that allows him to use his executive powers to ship inmates to other states.
Prisons: Alexander Propose Saving Californians $20 Billion (tags)
Widespread spending abuse in California’s prison system has more than doubled since Governor Schwarzenegger was elected in 2003 and the governor has failed to address a growing prison crisis. However the governor has been more concerned with building more prisons to deal with the state’s growing prison population; now over 172,000 inmates in a system designed to accommodate less than 100,000. Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor with the Peace and Freedom Party, wants to cut the fat by $20 billion.
Auditor Needs Help In Alabama Stopping Modern Slavery -- Indentured Servitude (tags)
Once again, the Mobile Auditor Sauvant has found more abuses akin to the slave era. Actually it is like Slavery or Worse, endentured servitude of inmates released and re-jailed for not being able to pay jail rent extortion. Government officials stealing funds
Lt. Gov. Candidate Proposes Prison Population Reduction (tags)
Stewart Alexander is proposing to reduce California’s prison population by 70 thousand, and says California should close one or more prisons, within the next two to three years, to cut cost to taxpayers.
A great way for governments to abuse prisoners (tags)
A great way for the government to abuse prisoners. If they live in Hawaii or Alaska then jail them 3,000 miles away in Arizona which makes it almost impossible for their relatives or friends to visit them.
Baca Calls for Segregationism (tags)
LA Co Sheriff Lee Baca's response to riot: segragation.
Noticias: Street gangs, Rappers and Insurgents (tags)
See a sniper rifle, new pistol,RPG - kiss the sky and clench our fists. To be real in this world is to be on fire! To shoot back is to be a man. Terrorism behind Homeland Security Thugs & billions a propaganda/hate they shove down throats of the poor & immigrants will be silenced. They say: Do what Whitey says or U like a terrorist organisation. Well comrades we got the Homie Security Department and we kickin into action.
Haitian police killed dozens of prisoners last week and carted out bodies in wheelbarrows during a riot that turned into a massacre, according to a human rights group.
Lecture: Illegal Detentions of the U.S. War on Terror (tags)
This 15 minute lecture was one of four presentations given on U.S. political prisoners at the ANSWER coalition meeting on 11/23/04 in Los Angeles (sorry, the video says 11/24/04, which is wrong).
BTL: U.S. Prison System Requires New Commitment to Treat Mentally Ill Inmates (tags)
...Interview with Mike Lawlor, Connecticut state representative, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus.
Reform of L..A. County Jails is Needed (tags)
Jail task force urges jail reform and preparation for former inmates to be released into society.
Beneath the Shadows of Abu Ghraib (tags)
This article examines the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in regards to current U.S. prison practices and the death of Ronald Reagan
Behind the Barbed-Wire with Sherman Austin (tags)
Update about the last visit to Sherman.
Bosnian Serb camp commander sentenced to 23 years for murder, torture (tags)
"not one single day and night at the camp passed by without Dragan Nikolic and others committing barbarous acts" -- Serbian commander Dragan Nikolic admitted to the murder of nine camp inmates and the torture of five others
Inmates Are Moved After Riot Kills 2 (tags)
SACRAMENTO — More than 130 inmates have been transferred out of a privately run state prison in eastern Riverside County after a weekend riot there left two convicts dead and tensions at the low-security lockup unusually high.
NYC sued over 'non-vegetarian' prison policy (tags)
Egert pointed to an affidavit from Richard Schwartz, a college professor and president of the group Jewish Vegetarians of North America, saying vegetarianism is consistent with the teachings of Judaism
SADDAM'S TORTURE CHAMBERS (tags)
This is the true face of Saddam...in case you have not figured it out by now.
BTL:Mass Commutation of Illinois Death Row Inmates Reframes National Debate on... (tags)
...Capital Punishment. Interview with Bruce Shapiro,co-author of the book "Legal Lynching," conducted by Scott Harris
RIOT AT MOJAVE DESERT PRISON (tags)
Over 300 inmates rise up with hand-made weapons. The prison, designed to hold 2,000 prisoners, currently holds over 4,000.
Pelican Bay Prisoners to Begin Hunger Strike Tomorrow (July 2) (tags)
Pelican Bay Prisoners to Begin Hunger Strike Tomorrow (July 2) to Protest Security Housing Unit (SHU) Program
Three Days of Hard Time in LA County Jail (tags)
Arrested in the Ramparts Police Station civil disobedience on August 16th. Just wanted to provide some details about what's going on in the pen.