Over 100 Rebellions In Jails And Prisons Over COVID19 Conditions By Ella Fassler, Truthout. November 21, 2020 Over 100 Rebellions In Jails And Prisons Over COVID19 Conditions2020-11-212020-11-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/covidprison.png200px200px Above image: Lauren Walker, Truthout. U.S jails and prisons, already death traps, have been completely ravaged by COVID-19. Crowded quarters, a lack of PPE, inadequate medical care, an aging population, and unsanitary conditions have contributed to an infection rate 5.5 […]
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For Some, Homes And Neighborhoods Are Now Digital Prisons By Eddie Conway, The Real News. September 7, 2020 For Some, Homes And Neighborhoods Are Now Digital Prisons2020-09-072020-09-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/maxresdefault-e1599488840442.jpg200px200px Authors Maya Schenwar and Vikki Law argue that many alternatives to incarceration follow the same model of oppression as physical prisons. Eddie Conway: Welcome to this episode of Rattling The Bars. I’m Eddie Conway, your host, coming to […]
Is Burning Prisons The New Knocking Down Confederate Statues? By Branden Janese, The North Star. July 30, 2020 Is Burning Prisons The New Knocking Down Confederate Statues?2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/ap_20207849435637-e1596131135716.jpg200px200px Saturday afternoon in Seattle, Washington, a construction site where a youth detention center was being built burned to the ground. The King County juvenile detention facility is assumed to have been set ablaze by some of the thousands of Seattle […]
What could the Democrats possibly be thinking? Their new policy for social justice is to slander the police, defund the police, close prisons and set criminals free. What could possibly go wrong? On July 8th we reported that radical leftists have pushed through a proposal to shut down one of two St. Louis City jails labeled ‘The Workhouse’. They claimed this will save money but these […]
Federal Prisons Locked Down To Quash Black Lives Matter Protests By Carter Deane, Solitary Watch. July 25, 2020 Federal Prisons Locked Down To Quash Black Lives Matter Protests2020-07-252020-07-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/cops.png200px200px Above photo: Members of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and other law enforcement agencies block a street near the White House as protests over the death of George Floyd continue, June 3, 2020, in Washington, D.C. On June 2, […]
Poultry And Prisons: Toward A General Strike For Abolition By Carrie Freshour, Black Agenda Report. July 24, 2020 Poultry And Prisons: Toward A General Strike For Abolition2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/freshour_845x400.jpeg200px200px Poultry-processing plants are critical sites of racial capitalist accumulation produced through an unequal valuation of people and places. “People cannot be released from prisons only to be put on the streets or to premature disability at the poultry.” On […]
Norway’s Halden Prison is a model for a different way to approach incarceration, says psychiatrist Christine Montross. “The living quarters essentially look like a new and clean youth hostel,” she says. Heiko Junge/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Heiko Junge/AFP via Getty Images Norway’s Halden Prison is a model for a different way to approach incarceration, says psychiatrist Christine Montross. “The living quarters essentially […]
Why Did The Bureau Of Prisons Impose A National Lockdown? By Natalia Schuurman, AFGJ.org. July 8, 2020 Why Did The Bureau Of Prisons Impose A National Lockdown?2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/protest_1200_daisugano-e1594233976525.jpg200px200px Above photo: Dai Sugano/The Mercury News/East Bay Times. It started days after the murder of George Floyd. Following the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, a nationwide uprising of unprecedented proportions has swept the U.S. in […]
Tents are visible behind wire fences last month near buildings of the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth, Texas. Hundreds of inmates inside the facility reportedly have tested positive for the coronavirus, and several have died. LM Otero/AP hide caption toggle caption LM Otero/AP Tents are visible behind wire fences last month near buildings of the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth, Texas. Hundreds […]
US Attorney General William Barr US Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for four federal death-row inmates convicted of murdering children. In two of the cases, the inmates raped the children they murdered. In July of 2019, AG Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to revise the Federal Execution Protocol to provide for the use of […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: This Covid prison story came as no surprise. In both the pandemic preparation and the scramble for protection equipment and testing, the prisons and jails were at the end of the competition line. The rationale for the would be that front line health care workers were more valuable due to the pending risk of […]
Inmates in the Los Angeles County prison system are deliberately trying to contract the coronavirus so that they will be released, according to Sheriff Alex Villanueva. During a press conference on Monday, Sheriff Villanueva said that some inmates believed that if more inmates caught the virus, it would force the county to begin releasing more inmates. “There was some mistaken belief among the inmate population that […]
The Intercept: FOR THE PAST several decades, rural America’s economic lifeline has been the construction and operation of prisons and immigrant detention centers, both public and for-profit. The 1980s saw the collapse of American manufacturing and a farm crisis that ripped through the countryside. Mass incarceration was well-timed to fill the gap, producing jobs where they were needed. But those lifelines have transformed into vectors for coronavirus, […]