On the show, Chris Hedges discusses prison with the poet, writer and attorney, Reginald Dwayne Betts. The poet Dwayne Betts for a long time hid the fact that he had been incarcerated from the ages of 16 to 24 for a carjacking. Betts, a lawyer who was sworn into the Connecticut bar two years ago, is finishing up his PhD at Yale University, where he also earned his law degree. He currently works as a public defender. In his book ‘A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison,’ and in his poems, including […]
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Above photo: Steven Donziger embraces his son Matthew after his hearing outside Manhattan Federal Courthouse, October 1, 2021. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton. From the belly of the beast: read Steven’s first letter from prison on eve of his appellate argument Nov. 30 to overturn Judge Preska’s “conviction” in a trial found to violate international law. Donate today to help Steven and the Amazon communities continue their fight for freedom and to hold Chevron accountable for its “Chernobyl” ecological disaster. I am finally able to write directly from inside the belly of the beast: the federal prison in Danbury, CT. I am now on […]
Documents Provided Exclusively To The Grayzone Detail Canberra’s Abandonment Of Julian Assange, An Australian Citizen, And Provide Shocking Details Of His Prison Suffering. Was the government of Australia aware of the US Central Intelligence Agency plot to assassinate Julian Assange, an Australian citizen and journalist arrested and now imprisoned under unrelentingly bleak, harsh conditions in the UK? Why have the country’s elected leaders refused to publicly advocate for one of its citizens, who has been held on dubious charges and subjected to torture by a foreign power, according to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer? What does Canberra know about […]
Above photo: Abandoned prison in Avignon, France. Jef Wodniack / Shutterstock.com. Long-time prison abolitionist Jacques Lesage de La Haye reflects on decades of anti-prison organizing in France and his personal journey from inmate to activist. When I saw that Jaccques Lesage de La Haye had a new book called The Abolition of Prison, published by the French radical press, Éditions Libertalia, I reached out through my anarchist radio networks to find contact information for him. Jacques is a longtime anarchist and abolitionist in France, who for many years hosted the anti-prison radio show Ras les murs. His book promised to be a culmination of […]
In part one of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses the saga of trauma and transformation in an American prison as chronicled in journalist Chris Hedges’ new book, ‘Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison’. The US imprisons more of its people than any other country in the world. According to the non-profit Prison Policy Initiative, the American prison-industrial complex currently holds captive nearly 2.3 million people in more than 6,000 prisons, penitentiaries, jails, detention centers, and correctional facilities across the country. In his newest and positively riveting page-turner, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges takes us […]
St. Louis Park, MN – Red paint and posters reading “No new jails” were plastered on the door of architectural firm Klein McCarthy at the beginning of the work day on September 9. Responding to a nationwide call-out for #ShutEmDown2021 actions on the anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion, autonomous prison abolitionist groups took part in the action which also featured graffiti and a banner drop over Highway 100. Unicorn Riot received a statement from anonymous participants in the action who said they targeted Klein McCarthy Architects because their contract “to design a new $28-million jail” in Winona. This morning, along with targeting the office […]
Above Photo: Palestinians ride a motorcycle decorated with a poster that shows pictures of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Israel’s notorious Gilboa Prison. Nasser Nasser (AP) Note: Shortly after this article was published, Yaqoub Kadri and Muhammad Ardah were captured by Israeli forces in Nazareth. Opportunities for Palestinians to celebrate as a nation are few and far between, so when news broke of the escape of six high-profile Palestinian prisoners from one of Israel’s most notorious prisons, people took to the streets in triumph.Gilboa Prison, Palestine — It is said that Palestinians are the most incarcerated people in the world. Rarely […]
Prison Staff Force Prisoners to Accept Liability For Their Own Deaths By No Justice Under Capitalism, Popular Resistance. December 11, 2020 Prison Staff Force Prisoners to Accept Liability For Their Own Deaths2020-12-112020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/sq-e1607647022589.jpg200px200px Above photo: Inmates on the yard at San Quentin State Prison in 2012. Monica Lam/KQED/CIR. San Quentin – Prisoners at San Quentin State Prison are reporting that, over the past week, San Quentin medical staff have been pressuring prisoners to sign waiver forms accepting legal responsibility for their own deaths from COVID-19. That, despite more than 10 months of continuous neglect and Eighth Amendment violations by the California Department […]
Prison Strikers Suspend Starvation, Continue Work Strike By Oakland Abolition and Solidarity. December 4, 2020 Prison Strikers Suspend Starvation, Continue Work Strike2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/satf-e1607088764765.jpg200px200px Above photo: Officer Vickjord walks the floor of the 4B SHU at Corcoran State Prison. The prison started accepting inmates in 1988. Grant Slater/KPCC. Corcoran, CA – CDCr’s negligent and careless response to the COVID-19 outbreak at CSATF has now killed at least three people. Active cases at the prison continue to hover near 1000 and now over half of the facility has contracted the disease. Guards and staff members are still failing to follow safety protocols and continue […]
Inmate Kitchen Workers Forced To Serve Expired Meat In Prison November 19, 2020 Inmate Kitchen Workers Forced To Serve Expired Meat In Prison2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/arizona-department-corrections-e1605827978497.png200px200px Above photo: Arizona Department of Corrections building in Phoenix. Arizona – Incarcerated people who work in the kitchens at the Eyman, Lewis and Yuma state prisons claim they were forced to serve expired meat to their fellow inmates, resulting in foodborne illnesses. Several inmates report being diagnosed with H. pylori infections, which they attribute to the food and unsanitary conditions in the kitchens. The inmates say they were subsequently put on antibiotics in recent days and weeks to […]
Hunger Strike Enters Third Week At California’s Largest Prison By Ryan Fatika, Perilous Chronicle. November 18, 2020 Hunger Strike Enters Third Week At California’s Largest Prison2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/caprison-e1605713423665.jpeg200px200px In the southern part of California’s Central Valley, about halfway between Bakersfield and Fresno, sits Corcoran, California—a small farming town surrounded on all sides by acres of cotton and tomato fields. Perched at the town’s southern tip are two of the state’s largest prisons. Together, their denizens make up about 33% of the population of Corcoran. One of the facilities, the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF), is the state’s single largest, housing 4,481 prisoners, […]
Inmate Sues Prison Over Lack Of COVID19 Precautions By Nick Muscavage, Central New Jersey. October 27, 2020 Inmate Sues Prison Over Lack Of COVID19 Precautions2020-10-272020-10-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/inmate.png200px200px Above photo: Nick Muscavage. Union, NJ – An inmate at the state’s only prison for women has filed a lawsuit alleging the state Department of Corrections is failing to take proper precautions against the COVID-19 pandemic. Jennie Cullum filed the lawsuit in state Superior Court in Hunterdon County against the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women claiming she was not allowed to take precautions against the virus as cases began to increase, and, in one instance, guards did […]
Kandice Ortega cleaned the tables and phones in building 503 with a sanitary pad. There were no fresh rags, but she didn’t want to live in filth — cleanliness had taken on a new, pressing importance. Like many, Ortega worried about getting COVID-19. But unlike much of the country, Ortega had few options to limit her exposure. She is incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), the largest women’s prison in the world. When CCWF officials began to limit activities and movement to safeguard against the coronavirus, building 503 was turned into a quarantine unit with 100 beds for isolation. […]
Former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev has been detained “in relation to riots” after he accused the secret services of plotting to kill him. He was released from prison when his supporters surrounded it on Tuesday. Atambayev is being held in relation to a criminal case about staging mass riots, according to the State Committee for National Security (GKNB). There were also reports that the former president’s two sons were detained as well, but the GKNB denied this. On Friday, Atambayev spoke at a rally in the center of the country’s capital, Bishkek. The event spiraled into scuffles between his supporters […]
VT likes the ‘Proud Boys.’ First of all, if the right wing money from Bannon and Stone to payoff fake Antifa is going out, why not get in line and take some. This is the real force behind Proud Boys. Good morning America!! #PrideBoys #ProudBoys pic.twitter.com/3ruu5vdRAt — Dr Gráinne McEntee (@pongosapien) October 4, 2020 Any […] Source link
A federal corrections officer caught a visitor sneaking contraband into a downtown Manhattan jail, then allegedly demanded sex for not arresting her on smuggling charges and having her barred from future visits. The officer, Robert Adams, was arrested Monday by the FBI for bribery and blackmail, several months after he began coercing the visitor into having sex with him, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in New York federal court. The case traces its origins back to July 2019, when Adams, who worked in the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s (MCC) visiting area, allegedly found a prohibited item on an inmate shortly after […]
VT: Trump bought the land for 2 million, filled with asbestos lined buildings, rotting away, too expensive to clean up. He walked away from it, no golf course was built but took at $26.1 million write off on a $2 million piece of land that today is worth negative dollars. Federal law requires anyone taking a write off of more than $5000 to provide a “qualified appraisal” to justify the deduction. Trump has withheld his taxes on this issue and many others where such appraisals and other required documentation, we believe, was not supplied. There is no record of any kind […]
Conservatives have been up in arms over Twitter’s failure to remove a journalist’s call for teen shooter Kyle Rittenhouse to be murdered in prison, while at the same time wiping out tweets in his support. Journalist Dustin Nichols tweeted Saturday that Rittenhouse, who was charged with murder after shooting three people last month in Kenosha, should be stabbed to death in prison. The post elicited an avalanche of angry reaction from conservatives, while also prompting questions about Twitter censorship after the company declined to delete the tweet for 20 hours and counting. “The real hero will be the inmate that stabs […]
Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. Mary Altaffer/AP Back in early April as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged New York, John J. Lennon was sure he would contract the coronavirus. As a prisoner at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., social distancing was impossible, he says. Making calls on prison phones, Lennon says, meant being “chest to shoulders” with nearly two dozen inmates. “It was a death-trap situation to use the phone,” he says. Not long after he made his prediction, Lennon started to feel […]
A Maryland man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday over a 2018 incident in which he shot a Black man in a Baltimore suburb and reportedly told him to “go back to Africa.” Brandon Higgs, the white man sentenced, was found to have links to white supremacist groups during the investigation, according to John Magee from the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office. According to court records, 26-year old Higgs was found guilty in January of attempted voluntary manslaughter, first-degree assault, firearms charges and hate crimes during the altercation in a Baltimore suburb where he shot Elvis Smith in […]
A California man has been convicted of assault and battery for sexual purposes after prosecutors claimed that he became obsessed with a female co-worker and planted his semen in her water bottle and food jar and smeared the substance on her computer. Orange County Superior Court Judge Kathleen Roberts ruled on Monday that 30-year-old Palmdale, California, resident Stevens Millancastro was guilty of numerous counts of misdemeanor assault and battery toward a coworker, the Orange County Register reported. Roberts also concluded that Millancastro committed said crimes for sexual purposes and must now register as a sex offender. Michael Morrison, Millancastro’s attorney, reportedly […]
Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire is one of the highest security jails in Britain. Among its 430 prisoners are 100 Category A inmates and seven “high risk” convicts. CCTV footage of two Muslim inmates attacking a prison officer with improvised weapons in Whitemoor jail has been shown to a jury at their trial at the Old Bailey in London. Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and Baz Hockton, 26, deny attempting to murder Neil Trundle, a prison officer at Whitemoor, a high security jail in the east of England. The jury has been told Ziamani had been convicted in 2015 of plotting to behead a British […]
Ren Zhiqiang seen at a business conference in Beijing in 2008. Ren was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for corruption, following his public criticism of Chinese president Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Ren Zhiqiang seen at a business conference in Beijing in 2008. Ren was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for corruption, following his public criticism of Chinese president Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images China has sentenced an influential property magnate and outspoken critic of the Communist […]
A former contractor for Australian science agency CSIRO was found to have mined around $7,000 in cryptocurrency. Source link
All she needs to convict Trump of rape is a DNA sample from any Trump family member and two of them have now volunteered. Maybe he can share a cell with Cosby. Guardian: The US justice department is seeking to take over Donald Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape, and federal lawyers asked a court on Tuesday to allow a move that could put the American people on the hook for any money she might be awarded. Breaking: The Justice Dept just moved to take over Trump’s defense in the E. Jean Carroll […]
Ronald McKeithen was trying to beat a clock he could not see. He’d gathered close to 100 certificates from programs completed during his three decades in prison: meditation, anger management, visual arts. He wrote a court petition by hand, then asked a friend to type it. He needed three copies, but the prison administration charged $1 a page, money Ron didn’t have. So, he bartered with a fellow prisoner who had access to a copy machine inside the prison, paying him with a pouch of tobacco. This petition was Ron’s one remaining avenue to freedom, and he’d heard a rumor that […]
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav appears in a courtroom of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in 2007. Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav appears in a courtroom of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in 2007. Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images The commander of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison where thousands of people were executed and tortured during the communist regime’s brutal rule over Cambodia in the 1970s, has died at age 77. Kaing […]
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Assange ‘In A Lot Of Pain’ Says Partner After Prison Visit By Alan Jones, The Irish Examiner. August 29, 2020 Assange ‘In A Lot Of Pain’ Says Partner After Prison Visit2020-08-292020-08-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/assange-partner-and-children.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Assange’s partner and children, Stella Moris (centre) and sons, Gabriel (right) and Max (left) leave Belmarsh Prison after visiting her partner and their father, Julian Assange. Aaron Chown/PA. Julian Assange’s partner has visited him in prison for the first time in almost six months, and said he looked much thinner than last time she saw him. Stella Moris took the couple’s two young children to meet their […]
The Illinois teen accused of shooting two people dead during chaotic unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin this week has been charged on six counts, including first-degree murder and attempted homicide. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was charged on Thursday after being taken into custody the day prior, suspected of killing two protesters in Kenosha and wounding a third on Tuesday night. In addition to first-degree intentional homicide and attempted murder, he faces two charges for reckless endangerment, reckless homicide and the possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor. A criminal complaint filed on Thursday in the Kenosha County Circuit Court noted that the […]
A New Zealand court has sentenced mass shooter Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at a mosque last year, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first such ruling ever handed down in the country. The 29-year-old Australian previously admitted to some 92 charges – 51 for murder, 40 for attempted murder and one linked to terrorism – following the 2019 shooting rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. At Tarrant’s sentencing on Thursday, High Court Judge Cameron Mander said the severity of his crimes justified the harsh penalty. “Your crimes… are so wicked that even […]
New Zealand’s Christchurch saw two mass shootings at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in March 2019. The attacker, Brenton Tarrant, live-streamed the massacre that took 51 lives and left around 50 people injured. Brenton Tarrant, a gunman behind the mass shootings in mosques in Christchurch, received a life sentence without parole in the High Court of Christchurch on Thursday. It is a first time in New Zealand’s history the life sentence is handed down. Tarrant, who did not oppose the life sentence, has been labeled “clearly New Zealand’s worst murderer”. The judge, Cameron Mander, called Tarrant’s crimes “brutal and beyond […]
New FOIA Docs Expose Conditions In Private Immigration Prison By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. August 23, 2020 New FOIA Docs Expose Conditions In Private Immigration Prison2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/farmville.jpg200px200px Above photo: This aerial view shows the Immigration Centers of America facility Farmville on Aug. 12, 2020 in Farmville, Va. Steve Helber | AP. So Bad That Even ICE Was Shocked. Documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests show a consistent pattern of abuse at the privately-run ICE facility in Farmville, where detainees suffered abuse, neglect, and threats of retaliation if they complained. New documents shed light on what activists are calling “a dark pattern of […]
Gregory Marcinski is 43 and incarcerated at a federal prison in Otisville, New York. He has never met or touched his partner Eva, who lives nearly 4,000 miles away in Bavaria, Germany. But when Eva opens his letters and fingers the stationery she knows he’s held, too, the sensation feels “a bit like holding hands.” Marcinski has been in prison for almost 20 years, serving two concurrent life sentences in Kentucky and New York for the charge of kidnapping resulting in death. Eva first reached out to him over a prison pen pal website in 2017. The two fell in love […]
Jailer Who Organized Assault On An Inmate Sentenced To Prison By Morgan Eads, Kentucky.com. August 21, 2020 Jailer Who Organized Assault On An Inmate Sentenced To Prison2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/jail.jpeg200px200px Above photo: News.Law. A former deputy jailer has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an inmate at the Shelby County Detention Center. William Anthony Carey, 31, admitted to asking an inmate to assault another inmate that Carey didn’t like, according to his plea agreement. Corey Lynn Hopper, 30, the inmate Carey asked to carry out the assault, pleaded guilty in January to aiding […]
Kris Pedretti was a “normal 15-year-old kid” before Joseph DeAngelo entered her California bedroom just before Christmas in 1976. “By the time that night came to an end, my world changed forever,” she said in a Sacramento County courtroom this week, describing how she was bound, gagged, and raped that winter night. “I sang ‘Jesus Loves Me’ in my head as I waited—waited to die.” Pedretti, now 59, was one of several women who DeAngelo terrorized during the 1970s and 80s—and among more than three dozen survivors and family members of victims who gave emotional statements this week while demanding a […]
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Lori Loughlin, the actress at the center of the nation-wide college admissions scandal, will spend two months in prison after admitting to paying thousands of dollars to get her two daughters into top colleges. The sentencing over video-conference in Boston federal court came hours after her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, was sentenced to five months in prison for his role in getting the couple’s daughters admitted to the University of Southern California by falsely portraying them as elite athletes. In addition to the prison sentence, Loughlin will have to pay a $150,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service, […]
Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison after admitting to more than a dozen murders in the 1970s and ’80s. Santiago Mejia/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Santiago Mejia/AFP via Getty Images Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison after admitting to more than a dozen murders in the 1970s and ’80s. Santiago Mejia/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 2:32 p.m. ET The former police officer known as the Golden State Killer was sentenced Friday to spend the rest of his life in […]
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, are expected to be sentenced Friday for their roles in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Steven Senne/AP hide caption toggle caption Steven Senne/AP Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, are expected to be sentenced Friday for their roles in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Steven Senne/AP Television actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, a fashion designer, are expected to be sentenced on Friday for their roles in the college admissions bribery scheme that federal investigators named Operation Varsity Blues. The couple entered plea […]
‘What Happens If Julian Assange Dies In A British Prison?’ August 18, 2020 ‘What Happens If Julian Assange Dies In A British Prison?’2020-08-182020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/prison-belmarsh-with-assange-image-e1597681085846.jpg200px200px Julian Assange appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video-link on Friday, August 14, 2020. Seen to those in attendance through two flat-screen monitors placed at either side of the west London courtroom, the WikiLeaks founder and former editor patiently sat through the proceedings in which he took no active role – he coughed and cleared his throat throughout. Normally held in a solitary cell at H.M.P. Belmarsh for twenty-three-and-a-half hours a day with a chronic lung condition, this […]
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 Surrounded by suburban white women, the President today pardoned Susan B. Anthony, the white woman who led voting rights campaign for women. Blacks, intelligent people will recall, received voting rights at the behest of the Republican Party and against the violent opposition of racist segregationist Democrats. We pray that the President will soon pardon Native American and Black Panther leaders still in prison (or dead in prison) who defended their communities against US military, CIA, and FBI predation. As an afterthought, throw in Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸: Randy Short: Promotions and Pardons Healing of […]
On August 29, 1945, photographer John Swope, aboard a U.S. Navy landing craft, snapped a photo of men in a Japanese prison camp the Navy had come to liberate. The POWs told him that the constant humiliation and fear of physical abuse was more oppressive than the punishment itself. After describing the brutality of some guards, prisoners made a point of introducing Swope to the guards who were kind to them. (National Archives) American World War II Prisoners of War in the Omori Prison Camp Who were the airmen in John Swope’s famous photograph of the Omori prison camp? https://t.co/nOJjkmJy3S — […]
Witness Against Torture Prison Hunger Strike By Witness Against Torture. August 15, 2020 Witness Against Torture Prison Hunger Strike2020-08-152020-08-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/wat-e1597451967424.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fast for Justice – Day 10: The Reverend Billy Talen marched with us to the White House and helped us hold banners during the vigil. Photograph by Justin Norman. Keep Up the Pressure. NC Prison Activist Joseph “Shine White” Stewart’s Hunger Strike is Working! Shine’s hunger strike is now in its second week and the next few days of pressure are critical! So WAT family: Contact Shane Tharrington and demand Shine’s (Joseph Stewart #0802041) release from solitary even if you’re not fasting in […]
The 4th Circuit Court in Venezuela with jurisdiction in terrorism, condemned two American citizens to 20 years in prison this week. Luke Denman and Airan Berry are linked to the “Gedeon” operation. They were not offered their right to defense. United States veterans Denman and Berry participated in a failed attempt to allegedly topple the failed socialist regime of Nicolas Maduro. This was an episode that is still surrounded by numerous questions. The attorney for the two Americans Alonso Medina said he was hired by the families of the two men they were not allowed access to him and they were […]
An Indonesian man was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday for destroying a Quran, the Islamic sacred book. According to AFP, Doni Irawan Malay, 44, was sentenced in a district court in the city of Medan, located in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province after being arrested for the crime in February. He was accused of storming out of a mosque in the city and tossing the pages of a Quran into a trash can. It is unclear why Malay committed the act. At the time of his arrest, police said that Malay was “mentally healthy” and may have been urged […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a leading non-partisan professional association of physicians across the United States. Today the AAPS filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to compel the release to the public to the public of hydroxychloroquine by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Here are two charts that show how hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness in treating the coronavirus. Via AAPS And here is another chart proving the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine. TRENDING: “Why Are You Going Out of State? I Can See It at the Airports!” -Ugh- Watch NM […]
Afghan security personnel take position on the top of a building where insurgents were hiding in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday. The day before, militants from the Islamic State attacked a prison holding many ISIS members. Rahmat Gul/AP hide caption toggle caption Rahmat Gul/AP Afghan security personnel take position on the top of a building where insurgents were hiding in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday. The day before, militants from the Islamic State attacked a prison holding many ISIS members. Rahmat Gul/AP Afghan forces have retaken control of a prison in eastern Afghanistan, a day after it […]
A cat that was detained at Sri Lanka’s high-security Welikada Prison on suspicion of smuggling drugs to inmates has escaped, according to local media reports in Aruna. The feline delinquent was detained last week with two grams of heroin, two SIM cards and a memory chip hidden in a plastic bag tied to its collar on the prison grounds. Police suspect that the drug traffickers who trained the cat are part of the same cartel that was caught using an eagle to smuggle drugs in a suburb of Colombo. The menagerie of accomplices were associated with the underworld crime boss Angoda […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202008021080039894-at-least-1-killed-18-injured-after-car-bomb-explodes-outside-prison-in-afghanistan-reports-say/ No militant group has so far taken responsibility for the attack. At least one person was killed and eighteen more injured after a car bomb went off outside a prison in Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan, local media reported, citing officials. MORE TO FOLLOW Source link
“She is kneeling on the ground, there is no resistance. The officer then kicks her in the abdomen. He grabs her and drags her across the asphalt so her face is dragging on the ground to locate her away from the car. Again, another excessive use of force,” compliant, yet he kicked her while she was on the ground and then continued to punch her and then DRAG HER???? THIS WAS AT MCDONALDS ON SANTA CLARA IN SAN JOSE!!!!! pic.twitter.com/F0kywklXK5 — Diannee 🌻 (@__dianeedun) July 23, 2020 San Jose resident Josh Gil shot the video Wednesday while picking up a DoorDash […]
Justice Department Report Finds Systemic Excessive Use Of Force By Prison Guards By Eddie Burkhalter, Alabama Political Reporter. July 24, 2020 Justice Department Report Finds Systemic Excessive Use Of Force By Prison Guards2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/prison.png200px200px The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday released a report that details why the federal government believes systemic use of excessive force within Alabama’s prisons for men violates the Eighth Amendment. The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama found systemic problems of unreported or underreported excessive use of force incidents, a failure to properly investigate them […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007241079969213-us-prison-authorities-have-not-resolved-yaroshenkos-medical-problems-lawyer-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko, jailed in the United States, continues experiencing health issues and has not received appropriate treatment, his lawyer Alexey Tarasov said on Thursday. “Yaroshenko has major dental problems. He feels pain, it is really bothering him”, Tarasov said. “It has not been resolved, the dental problems are still outstanding”. Prison authorities offered Yarohenko to extract the hurting teeth, but he refused, the lawyer added. The defence is currently assessing Yaroshenko’s huge medical records, he noted, adding that his client is not feeling well. The Federal Correction Institution in […]
Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant convicted of lying to Congress about his connection to WikiLeaks and intimidating another witness to do the same, had his sentence commuted by President Trump on Friday—just a few days before he was set to report to jail. President Trump had raised the possibility of clemency almost immediately after Stone, 67, was convicted last November, often complaining—without evidence—that Stone had been treated poorly by law enforcement or targeted unfairly. In a statement announcing Stone’s clemency, the White House described Stone as “a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the […]
Corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson declined Roger Stone’s plea and ordered him to report to prison on July 14th. This is the same prison that has a coronavirus outbreak so bad the government just released a convicted pedophile and a convict who committed bank and wire fraud due to the danger. As we reported on Saturday, on June 26th Judge Amy Berman Jackson ignored the substance of Stone’s motion to either delay his surrender date or mandate home confinement due to the dangers of Coronavirus and ordered him to report to prison on July 14. In essence, Judge Jackson gave […]
Lawyers Get No Bail In Property Damage Case, Face 45 Years In Prison By Center for Constitutional Rights. July 3, 2020 Lawyers Get No Bail In Property Damage Case, Face 45 Years In Prison2020-07-032020-07-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/two-lawyers-face-45-years-in-prison-e1593790181763.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis. Photos by Hyder Kazmi, left and Meghna Philip, right. Letter from Civil and Human Rights Organizations, Legal Associations, and Policy Institutes in Support of Colin Mattis and Urooj Rahman On June 22, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights—along with a coalition of other civil rights organizations—released an open letter demanding that Colin Mattis and Urooj Rahman be released immediately and that the excessive […]
Corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson declined Roger Stone’s plea and ordered him to report to prison on July 14th. This is the same prison that has a coronavirus outbreak so bad the government just released a pedophile due to the danger. As we reported earlier this morning, on June 26th Judge Amy Berman Jackson ignored the substance of Stone’s motion to either delay his surrender date or mandate home confinement due to the dangers of Coronavirus and ordered him to report to prison on July 14. In essence, Judge Jackson gave Roger Stone two more weeks to sit at home […]
In May a new book claimed that Bill Clinton had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam. The New York Post reported: Bill Clinton had an affair with British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping recruit underage victims for notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to a blockbuster new book. The ex-president — who denies cheating on wife Hillary Clinton with Maxwell — reportedly engaged in the romps during overseas trips on Epstein’s private plane, a customized Boeing 727 that’s since become known as the “Lolita Express.” TRENDING: UPDATE: HUSBAND FIRED After Black Woman ‘Gypsy Hoax’ on Him […]
Federal immigration authorities are refusing to release an HIV-positive man who has been held in a Minnesota detention facility since January, despite the fact that the man has already won his case for release before an immigration judge—and despite his severe risk of medical complications from the coronavirus outbreaks that have spread inside detention facilities across the country. “I’m dying, slowly, even with my medication,” said William Zacarias Marroquìn, a 32-year-old restaurant worker, calling from inside the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, Minnesota. “I don’t know if they care or not, but I can be spending my time with my […]
A 37-year-old female resident of the city of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempt to acquire a chemical weapon. A North Dakota US District Court sentenced Sijie Liu to six years behind bars on June 22, after she attempted to purchase a chemical weapon from an undercover FBI employee on the dark web, according to court documents cited by Canadian outlet CTV News Winnipeg. According to court documents observed by the outlet, Liu first made contact with the undercover agent some time between February 15, 2019, and […]
A 22-year-old man from Washington state has been handed a 13-month prison sentence for developing, using and selling access to Internet of Things malware. Kenneth Currin Schuchman pleaded guilty last September to violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act after selling DDoS botnets based on the Internet of Things (IoT) malware ‘Mirai’. Mirai infects IoT devices and turns them into a network of remote controlled “zombie bots.” In the simplest of terms, an IoT device is any technological device capable of connecting to the internet. This network of things is ever-increasing, and nowadays it isn’t uncommon for cars, fridges, and even […]
Health officials are working to keep a fast-moving coronavirus outbreak at California’s San Quentin State Prison from spreading into the broader Bay Area community. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Health officials are working to keep a fast-moving coronavirus outbreak at California’s San Quentin State Prison from spreading into the broader Bay Area community. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images An explosion of coronavirus infections at California’s San Quentin State Prison, the state’s oldest, has public health officials there worried about its impact on prisoners, staff and the wider hospital system in San Francisco Bay Area. “Shocking, heartbreaking are certainly […]
Daily Beast: A federal judge has denied Roger Stone’s request for a two-month delay on the start of his prison sentence and ordered him to be incarcerated July 14. The Republican operative and adviser to President Donald Trump, age 67, had asked to start serving his sentence later because of the spread of the new […] Source link
George Nader We reported previously that George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman and one of Mueller’s ‘star witnesses’ was charged in a Virginia federal court in July 2019 with additional child sex crimes. On Friday, a federal judge in Virginia sentenced Nader, 61, to 10 years in prison — the absolute minimum he could receive for his charges! Recall, Nader was previously indicted on June 3rd 2019 on child pornography charges. According to a 3-count indictment unsealed last year, Nader was charged last July for possessing child pornography and for traveling with a minor to engage in illegal sexual acts. TRENDING: Black Lives Matter […]
Inside The US’s Largest Maximum-Security Prison, COVID-19 Raged By Anat Rubin, Tim Golden, and Richard A. Webster, ProPublica. June 26, 2020 Inside The US’s Largest Maximum-Security Prison, COVID-19 Raged2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/covidangola-e1593186256873.png200px200px Above photo: Terry Rogers holds a photo of Michael Williams, her brother, in front of her home in Bridge City, Louisiana, on May 17, 2020. Kathleen Flynn/ProPublica. Outside, Officials Called Their Fight a Success. Inmates at Angola prison in Louisiana told ProPublica of widespread illness, dysfunctional care and deadly neglect as the coronavirus outbreak hit. By the time he persuaded the guards to let him call his family, Michael Williams could feel his life slipping away. His body […]
“What makes this pandemic so scary is all the unknown factors,” writes 40-year-old Mohammed Monsuri. Lisa R. Cohen hide caption toggle caption Lisa R. Cohen “What makes this pandemic so scary is all the unknown factors,” writes 40-year-old Mohammed Monsuri. Lisa R. Cohen Mohammed Monsuri is an incarcerated student and musician who is serving a 25-year sentence at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. In this essay, dictated to journalist Daniel A. Gross, Monsuri writes about the impact of the coronavirus inside the prison system. You can hear him in conversation with Robert Pollock, his friend and manager of PEN […]
As Texas faces a massive surge of COVID-19 cases and increasing criticism from public health experts for having opened too early and too quickly, Houston has been at the forefront of the outbreak. Hospitals in the state’s most populous city are quickly running out of beds—including Texas Medical Center, the largest hospital in the world, where ICU beds were at more than 99 percent normal capacity on Thursday—as the number of confirmed cases in the state have begun an “exponential rise.” Public health experts have maintained that Houston’s hospitals are well equipped to handle hospitalizations in the near term, but in […]
A row of police officers stand guard with the statue of former President Andrew Jackson after protesters tried to topple it in Washington, DC on June 22, 2020. Eric Baradat /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Baradat /AFP via Getty Images A row of police officers stand guard with the statue of former President Andrew Jackson after protesters tried to topple it in Washington, DC on June 22, 2020. Eric Baradat /AFP via Getty Images President Trump vowed via Twitter Tuesday morning that anyone who vandalizes “any monument, statue or other such federal property” will be arrested and […]
Earlier today President Trump spoke to reporters at the White House before he left for his rally in Arizona later today. President Trump told reporters he will use the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation Act to go after the jailed hoodlums who attempted to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue last night in Lafayette Square. President Trump tweeted this out earlier this morning. …..This action is taken effective immediately, but may also be used retroactively for destruction or vandalism already caused. There will be no exceptions! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2020 TRENDING: It Begins… White Allies Paint Whip Marks on […]
US President Donald Trump has warned of harsh consequences for anyone defacing statues or monuments in Washington, DC, saying the vandals could spend up to a decade in prison. “Numerous people arrested in DC for the disgraceful vandalism, in Lafayette Park, of the magnificent Statue of Andrew Jackson, in addition to the exterior defacing of St. John’s Church across the street,” Trump tweeted on Monday night, after several protests erupted in the city. 10 years in prison under the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act. Beware! Numerous people arrested in D.C. for the disgraceful vandalism, in Lafayette Park, of the magnificent Statue of […]
Protesters Blockade Central Prison In North Carolina By Calvin Deutschbein, Workers.org. June 22, 2020 Protesters Blockade Central Prison In North Carolina2020-06-222020-06-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/raleighblm-e1592843023672.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Raleigh demonstrators block entrance to Central Prison for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Durham WW bureau. June 13 marked the beginning of the third week of protests in Raleigh, N.C., the state capital and home of the murderous Raleigh Police Department and more than 70 other law enforcement agencies. Different days have drawn different groups with varying goals, but not a day has gone by without hundreds of people turning out on the streets to support Black Liberation and oppose […]
Guardian: US attorney general William Barr announced the resignation on Friday of an influential attorney who oversaw key prosecutions of allies of Donald Trump and an investigation into Rudy Giuliani – but it appeared the attorney in question had other ideas. “I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning,” said Geoffrey Berman, adding he learned of his apparent departure as attorney for the Southern District of New York from a justice department press release. “I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate,” Berman said in a statement. “Until then, our investigations will move forward without […]
Prosecutors in St. Petersburg are looking for two defendants in the ‘Network’ case to be given up to nine years behind bars. Yuly Boyarshinov, 28, and Viktor Filinkov, 25, are accused of being part of a terrorist organization. According to investigators, Kazakhstani national Filinkov and Russian citizen Boyarshinov have been members of the ‘Set’ (meaning Network) anarchist terrorism community since 2016. In 2017 and 2018, several alleged members of the group were arrested in Penza and St. Petersburg, including these two men. The prosecution alleges that they had planned to carry out terrorist attacks during both the 2018 FIFA World Cup […]
Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide By Timothy Williams, Libby Seline and Rebecca Griesbach/New York Times Cases of the coronavirus in prisons and jails across the United States have soared in recent weeks, even as the overall daily infection rate in the nation has remained relatively flat. The number of prison inmates known to be infected has doubled during the past month to more than 68,000. Prison deaths tied to the coronavirus have also risen, by 73 percent since mid-May. By now, the five largest known clusters of the virus in the United States are not at nursing homes or meatpacking plants, […]
On February 11th all four DOJ prosecutors in the Roger Stone case abruptly resigned after the Department of Justice backed down from their outrageous and excessive sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone after he was caught lying to Congress in a process crime. Roger Stone, a Republican and Trump confidante, is 67 and has NO criminal record. Democrats and Amy Berman Jackson want him to die in prison. So who exactly are these so-called “career line prosecutors” as the fake news media keeps calling them in the Roger Stone case? Everyone of them has a direct tie to Hillary Clinton or Barack […]
The man who shot at police with a taser he stole from the police and then was shot dead by the police may not be the saint the mainstream media is attempting to make him out to be. Not only did Rayshard Brooks get in a struggle with police, steal their taser, run from the police and shoot the taser at the police, he was likely running due to the high risk that he would be going to prison based on his prior record. The mainstream media attempted to shine a positive light on Rayshard Brooks, who was gunned down in […]
The case was one of the key issues souring the already deteriorating relations between Turkey and the US, along with Washington’s reluctance to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a major Turkish opposition figure, which Ankara accuses of staging a military coup attempt. A Turkish court has sentenced US Consulate employee Metin Topuz to 8 years and 9 months in prison on charges of espionage and aiding a terrorist group, Anadolu News Agency reports. Topuz, who was working as a liaison officer for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is accused of contacting law enforcement officials linked to Fethullah Gülen, an Islamic scholar, major […]
Guardian: A former federal judge appointed to review the justice department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn has found that the government’s request should be denied because there is “clear evidence of a gross abuse of prosecutorial power”. Former US district judge John Gleeson said in a filing on Wednesday that the government “has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the president”. Gleeson was appointed by US district judge Emmet Sullivan in a special role to weigh in on the case, but it will ultimately be up to Sullivan and […]
Bus Drivers Refuse To Help Police, Prison Labor Replaces Meatpackers And More By Mike Elk, Payday Report. May 29, 2020 Bus Drivers Refuse To Help Police, Prison Labor Replaces Meatpackers And More2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/minneapolis-riot-police-protest-george-floyd-0527201-777×437.jpg200px200px Above photo: People face off with police near the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images. 230 Strikes on the Map With fast-food workers out on strike in Oakland over being asked to wear dog diapers as maskes and coffee baristas striking in Philly, our Strike Tracker Map has now risen to 230 strikes since March 1st. For more, check out the map here. Some Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Help […]
America needs better “experts.” The current crop of experts caused an economic catastrophe based on their crap predictions using clearly ridiculous models. ** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model in March to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and […]
Last week Illinois Democrat Governor J. B. Pritzker warned the people of Illinois the state in lockdown and businesses shut down until the end of May. He later told CNN the citizens of Illinois could be ordered to socially distance and wear masks indefinitely. Now Governor J.B. Pritzker warned small business owners that if they try to reopen their businesses they could face up to a year in prison. Pritzker the tyrant wants to jail business owners. Illinois Policy Org. reported: TRENDING: BREAKING — “QUID PRO JOE’ — AUDIO Released of JOE BIDEN and Ukrainian President Poroshenko Discussing FIRING VIKTOR SHOKIN […]
Tom Gores has enough money to shape the future of this country in profound ways. The businesses he controls impact the lives of millions of people, every day. He’s worth $5.7 billion. Last year, Forbes ranked him as the 118th wealthiest American. He owns the Detroit Pistons and is chief executive of an investment firm called Platinum Equity that controls more than $19 billion in assets. As far as oligarchs go, his public image is pretty good. Despite the revelation back in 2008 that he was sleeping with his sister-in-law, he generally has a reputation for being a decent guy. A […]
** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model** A new critique of the Imperial College Model finds the study is “completely unusable for […]
One of the women was wrongfully imprisoned for over a decade on a murder conviction secured by later discredited forensic evidence, and another woman was unsuccessfully tried twice for helping people vote. ‘A great embarrassment’: records offer insight into Ahmaud Arbery suspect George Barnhill, the district attorney for the Waycross judicial circuit in south-east Georgia, advised police in April that Gregory and Travis McMichael should not be charged over the death of Arbery, suggesting that the two had attempted to “stop and hold this criminal suspect” before fatally shooting him. Arbery had been jogging in the area, with numerous accounts stating there was no evidence of […]
This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter here. At the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wisconsin, robots that look like fancy space heaters have rolled from room to room 24 hours a day, seven days a week, since the end of March. The devices emit high-intensity ultraviolet light, a technology that can destroy viruses including swine flu and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). Sheriff Dave Mahoney bought the pair of UVC emitters, which cost about $80,000, shortly after the coronavirus pandemic hit, and was reimbursed through a […]
Private Prison Sues State For Not Having Enough Prisoners By Es Fein, Wondergressive. May 13, 2020 Private Prison Sues State For Not Having Enough Prisoners2020-05-132020-05-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/image-1.jpg200px200px Above photo: From News Break. A private prison in Arizona recently sued the state for having a lack of prisoners. For the sake of saving over $16 million in back pay, the state settled by paying the private prison $3 million. Arizona essentially payed a company $3 million because not enough people are committing crimes. To be fair, it’s a bit more complex than that. In July, 2010 three violent inmates escaped from an Arizona private prison, which prompted […]
President Trump’s disgraced former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison and will serve the rest of his sentence at home to lessen the risk of him succumbing to the novel coronavirus, according to multiple reports. Manafort has been serving out his seven-and-a-half year sentence at FCI Loretto in central Pennsylvania on charges related to Special Sounsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. He was found guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy and was sentenced in March 2019. He wasn’t due to be released from prison until November 2024. At the age of 71, Manafort is considered to be at particular risk […]
Protesters Make Their Voices, And Horns, Heard Over Conditions At Prison May 11, 2020 Protesters Make Their Voices, And Horns, Heard Over Conditions At Prison2020-05-112020-05-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/prison-rigths-are-human-rights-e1589221267201.jpg200px200px Above: Protestors said it’s impossible for prisons to maintain social distancing and cleaning guidelines. Those behind bars should be released, Schneyer said. “People are actually being exposed to modern-day slavery,” Schneyer said. From WRAL Raleigh, NC – Protesters calling attention to conditions inside state prisons took to the streets to voice their concerns and honk their horns at Central Prison in Raleigh. Julie Schneyer, an organizer of the protest, joined the dozens of people who took […]
Prison Labor Replaces Striking Garbage Workers In New Orleans By Mike Elk, Payday Report. May 10, 2020 Prison Labor Replaces Striking Garbage Workers In New Orleans2020-05-102020-05-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/sanitation-e1589129307781.png200px200px On Wednesday, dozens of garbage workers, employed by the temp service People Ready, went on strike, demanding proper safety equipment. The workers, who make only $10.25 an hour are also demanding hazard pay and paid sick leave. “$10.25 to pick up trash – come on now. It’s contaminated now with coronavirus,” strike leader Gregory Woods told Payday Report this week. After striking, the workers were fired en-masse earlier this week However, many workers had hoped that the city […]
The American Civil Liberties Union is preparing to formally call on former Vice President Joe Biden to release a policy plan that would cut mass incarceration in half as part of an effort to hold the presumptive Democratic nominee accountable for his prior commitment. In an email to The Daily Beast, the legal advocacy group said they intend to urge Biden to present a concrete answer to how he will address the country’s prison population that shows he’s serious about prioritizing racial issues and criminal justice reform. “We want to know how he’d operationalize this,” Lauren Weiner, the organization’s director of […]