prison industrial complex

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands BY ROBIN MCDOWELL AND MARGIE MASON ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables...

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/marijuana-pardon-texas-law-17493711.php Meanwhile, Abbott's Democratic gubernatorial opponent Beto O'Rourke vowed to legalize marijuana in the state if elected. Ariana Garcia, Chron Oct. 7, 2022Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 11:50 a.m. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...

Felicia Bell thinks every day about the $35,000 bail keeping her son, Gerlmy Todd, away from his three children. And she’s not alone. Panagioti Tsolkas, co-founder of Fight Toxic Prisons, said there are other families in Gainesville who are separated by bars because they cannot afford to pay...

Shortly after 2 p.m. on a Monday in November 2015, an inmate in the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, a sprawling prison in Ypsilanti, Mich., cried out that she “wants Bam Bam,” slang for an anti-suicide smock. Janika Edmond of Adrian, Mich., knew she posed a danger to herself. The...

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A surging inmate population in the 1980s led to a boom in for-profit prisons. Today, privately run prisons have become the government’s default detention centers for undocumented migrants. Thomas W. Beasley had something for sale, and figured he could market it the same as any other...

This week we air two interviews about the struggle of Alabama activist and prisoner Kinetic Justice. Kinetic, aka Robert Earl Council, conducted a 6 day hunger strike because he was transferred with no altercations, investigations or disciplinary actions and after just having ended an almost 54...

Dumb ass cac tried to bait him, goad him, etc repeatedly and Meek remained composed, spoke his truth, and surgically spliced every bit of bullshyt he threw his way :wow: I'm proud of breh :to: Finna cop his album off the strength of this interview and what he continues to stand for :salute:

Florida voters approved Amendment 4 on Tuesday night in the 2018 midterm elections, restoring voting rights to more than 1 million people in the state who were previously convicted of felonies. This is transformative in Florida,” Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida tells...

America’s prisoners are going on strike in at least 17 states Incarcerated Americans are often forced to work for cents an hour. So they’re launching what could be their biggest protest ever. America’s prisoners are going on strike. The demonstrations are planned to take place from August 21...

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) announces its support for the national prison strike starting on August 21st, 2018. Men and women incarcerated in prisons across the nation declare a nationwide strike in response to the riot in Lee...

Florida prisoners are calling for a general strike to start this week — marking the third mass action over the course of a year in protest of inhumane conditions in the state’s detention facilities. Detainees in at least eight prisons have declared their intention to stop all work on Monday —...

Retailer stops programs that offer shoplifters protection from prosecution for a fee after complaints and a court ruling calling practice ‘extortion’ An image from a security camera is displayed to shoppers above an aisle of a Walmart in St. Petersburg, Fla. The retailer has stepped up more...

Full story here: Arkansas Justice: Racism, Torture, and a Botched Execution Doubt most will bother to read it, digest and respond. Sad times man. JUST OVER SIX MONTHS have passed since the disturbing execution of Kenneth Williams, but as far as the state of Arkansas is concerned, it might as...

"Site commissions" raise prices by sending up to 60 percent of revenue to jails. There's widespread agreement that prisoners in the US pay far too much for phone calls, but several of the Federal Communications Commission's attempts to cap those prices have been blocked in court. One of the...

A lawsuit currently before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could determine the fate of cash bail in the United States. Earlier this year, Chief United States District Judge Lee Rosenthal ruled that the cash bail policies and practices of Harris County, Texas, violated the...

(long read): The deadliness of the opioid epidemic has roots in America’s failed response to crack

As Florida braces for Hurricane Irma, we look at conditions in Texas prisons since Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast two weeks ago with a historic downpour that lasted several days and caused massive flooding. Prisoners were not evacuated from either the federal prison or three Texas prisons...