A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Wants Her Freed. (theintercept.com)
Australia is throwing whistle blower in prison for uncovering war crimes in Afghanistan (www.youtube.com)
The purpose of a system is what it does. The police do not protect us. (slrpnk.net)
Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning (www.usatoday.com)
'Prisoners are the Compass of Our Struggle'—Palestinian Prisoners Day amid Gaza Genocide (www.palestinechronicle.com)
April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, established by the Palestinian National Council in 1974 as a day to honor the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli occupation prisons and to support their legitimate right to freedom. The date was chosen because it commemorates the release of prisoner Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi...
Executions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (yt.artemislena.eu)
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How Much Do Prison Jobs Pay? The Reality of Labor Behind Bars in the U.S. | Inside Story (youtu.be)
Incarcerated people are literally paid pennies per hour. This is slavery
Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies (arstechnica.com)
Crossposted from: lemmy.ml/post/13937769...
Cops tried to arrest a whole neighborhood. This is what happened when the community fought back. (therealnews.com)
“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates (www.propublica.org)
Prison Abolition Art Collection (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13384872...
Incarcerated Workers’ Campaigns – Anarchist Union Journal (anarchistunionjournal.org)
Virginia governor signs bipartisan bill that limits the use of dogs to attack prisoners in the commonwealth (www.businessinsider.com)
Final Straw: Xinachtli Speaks From A Texas Dungeon (itsgoingdown.org)
Letter from Anarchist Prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel (itsgoingdown.org)
FBI Raids California Prison Facing 63 Lawsuits Over Systemic Sexual Abuse (truthout.org)
Biometrics Giant Accenture Quietly Took Over LA Residents’ Jail Reform Plan (theintercept.com)
Germany: Ex-Red Army Faction Militant Arrested After Thirty Years Underground + The new citizen cop weapon ‘AI image search’ (darknights.noblogs.org)
The new citizen cop weapon ‘AI image search’...
Wall Street Is Finding New Ways to Milk the Prison System (jacobin.com)
Red Army Faction militant arrested in Germany after decades on run (www.theguardian.com)
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Conservative lawmakers are trying to get contraception and miscarriage to warrant a murder investigation (slrpnk.net)
Alexey Navalny has died in a Russian penal colony in the far north (en.wikipedia.org)
I feared he would be martyred, when he returned to Russia after getting poisoned by the FSB and helping Bellingcat track down the agents who poisoned him (nobody in power did anything about them). Back then, his life was saved by a pilot deciding to make an emergency landing and a doctor suspecting a neurotoxin....
Prison Lockdowns Are Becoming More Frequent and More Brutal Across the US (truthout.org)
While most lockdowns are intermittent (lasting from a few days to several weeks), an increasing number of state and federal prisons keep prisoners locked down for most or even all of the year. In addition, many prisons make people suffer through constant lockdown “cycles,” where prisoners get a very brief return to normal...
Stopping the Cop Cities Countrywide (crimethinc.com)
Since April 2021, protesters in Atlanta, Georgia have been fighting to defend Weelaunee Forest, where politicians and profiteers are attempting to build a police training compound known as Cop City. This movement has spread around the country, identifying and attacking the roots of state and corporate support for the project;...
