Mass Incarceration

Newsletter – A People United Will Never Be Defeated

October 18, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, Climate Justice, Drones, Exxon, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Peoples, Israel-Palestine, Kunduz, Mass Incarceration, Palestinians, Racism, TPP, War crimes, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. This week, hundreds of thousands rallied in Washington, DC for the Million Man March, more information became available regarding US war crimes, we celebrated the second annual People's Climate March and World Food Day and we are preparing a mass mobilization to protest the TransPacific Partnership. Popular Resistance is collaborating with a growing number of organizations and people to protest the TransPacific Partnership and other international treaties that will prevent us from achieving success in our struggles for racial, economic and environmental justice. We are planning a mass mobilization in Washington, DC this November to show the large and diverse opposition to agreements that force us to sacrifice the health and safety of our communities for corporate profits. There will be two days of action preparation followed by three full days of creative events. You are invited to participate in any way that you can.

Mass Surveillance, Incarceration & Deportation

October 17, 2015 Malkia Cyril, www.centerformediajustice.org Resist! Deportation, Mass Incarceration, Surveillance

By Malkia Cyril for The Center for Media Justice. Washington, DC - I’m talking about the 450,000 migrants in U.S. detention centers. The 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. The 9 million under the control of the justice system. I am talking about the 883 people killed by police this year. I am here for people like my Uncle Kamou Sadiki, a former Black Panther who will spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit. People like my mom, Janet Cyril, also a Black Panther, who faced the FBI head on when they burst into our house and demanded she testify against the San Francisco 8 in a secret court proceeding. She said no, and died two weeks later from sickle cell anemia.

Public Prisons Profiteering Is Staggering

October 5, 2015 James Kilgore, www.truth-out.org Educate! Mass Incarceration, Prison Industrial Complex

James Kilgore for Truthout - In addition to the private prison corporations, a wide range of companies, organizations, individuals, and even towns profit economically or politically from prisons. They all have "skin in the game" - and have a definite interest in opposing attempts to reduce or end mass incarceration. These prison profiteers recognize that incarcerating people is an economic as well as a political operation. Keeping a person in prison is costly, whether in New York, where in 2010 it cost on average $60,076 a year to lock up one person, or in West Virginia, where the price tag was $26,498. The question is: where does that money come from and where does it go?

The Fight Against Mass Incarceration Goes Global

September 28, 2015 Jennifer Turner, www.aclu.org Resist! Mass Incarceration, United Nations

By Jennifer Turner in ACLU - Next week, the U.N. Human Rights Council will formally adopt the first-ever U.N. report on mass incarceration. In this groundbreaking report, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights brings global attention to the root causes of overincarceration and overcrowding in prisons. A draft resolution that is expected to be adopted by the council will express concern about the “negative impact of over-incarceration and over-crowding on the enjoyment of human rights.” The ACLU worked with other groups to bring this issue to the attention of the Human Rights Council. With considerable movement for criminal justice reform right now, it is the perfect time for the U.N. to issue recommendations on how to reduce the prison and jail population worldwide taking into account human rights obligations and commitments. In the report, the high commissioner outlines a human rights-based approach for criminal justice reform that puts the human dignity of the person at the forefront.

Shaker Aamer To Be Transferred Home After 13 Yrs In Guantanamo

September 26, 2015 Elizabeth Beavers, www.blog.amnestyusa.org Educate! Guantanamo Bay, Law, Mass Incarceration, Torture

By Elizabeth Beavers in Amnesty USA - This is big news. At long last, the Obama administration has reportedly notified both Congress and the UK government that Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer will be transferred home to the UK after 13 years. Shaker’s case has for years compelled the Amnesty movement, along with many others, to call loudly for him to be transferred back to the UK. So today’s news is, to say the least, heartening. But as we celebrate, let us not forget – there is much more to be done, and not much time left to do it. The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay continues to house many who, like Shaker, have been approved for transfer. About half of the current detainees, in fact, are waiting for their own transfer. Although the U.S. national security agencies have conducted stringent reviews and cleared these people for transfer out of the prison, they are still there. They languish behind bars even though many have been cleared for years. Some, like Shaker, were cleared both by the Bush administration and now by the Obama administration.

Two Climate Activists Explain Their Involvement In Deportation Protest

September 22, 2015 Carissa Knipe, Sierra Klingele, Ed Mast, Hannah Madrone and Matthew Horwitz, www.floodthesystem.net Resist! Climate Justice, Immigration, Mass Incarceration, Solidarity

By Carissa Knipe, Sierra Klingele, Ed Mast, Hannah Madrone and Matthew Horwitz in Flood The System - Today we — a group of Seattle climate activists—chained ourselves together to block deportation buses at the Northwest Detention Center. Alongside members of the Trans and/or Womyn’s Action Camp (TWAC) and Northwest Detention Center Resistance, we risked our safety and our liberty by blocking roads and preventing the week’s deportations. As climate activists we take these risks because we believe the fight for migrant and climate justice are one and the same. We hope these actions inspire others in our movement to imagine a deeper, more engaged solidarity. Some have asked us why we are taking this action when the climate is at a crisis point. At the most basic level, we believe that people of conscience must care about human suffering, violence and injustice wherever and however it takes place.

Activists Locked Down Outside Tacoma Detention Center

September 22, 2015 Not 1 More, www.notonemoredeportation.com Resist! Immigration, Mass Incarceration

By Not 1 More - Northwest Detention Center Resistance Coalition members locked down to protest deportations at the private facility. Protesting the criminalization and scapegoating of immigrants, the protest highlights the moral injustice of privately-run for-profit detentions centers and their collaboration with local police departments creating a road to detention, and call for an end to all immigrant deportations and detentions. “Ending immigrant deportations is absolutely an environmental issue,” said Got Green executive director Jill Mangaliman. Speaking from one of the road blockades.

How Women Of Color Bear The Costs Of Mass Incarceration

September 21, 2015 Maya Dusenbery, www.feministing.com Educate! Mass Incarceration, Women of Color

By Maya Dusenbery in Feministing - There are a number of ways to put a price tag on the United States’s shameful mass incarceration system. On the most superficial level, $80 billion is how much it costs to keep more than 2.4 million people in our jails and prisons. Then there are the costs to those incarcerated themselves, who often find they’re denied basic civil rights and struggle to find employment, education, and housing for years to come after their release. But that’s really only the beginning, according to a groundbreaking new report from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design. Surveys of hundreds of formerly incarcerated people and their families in 14 states show that the true costs — emotional and financial — “continue long after incarceration ends and reach far beyond the individual being punished.”

Empire Files: Tortured & Enslaved, World’s Biggest Prison

September 20, 2015 AbMartin, telesurtv.net Resistance Report Criminal Justice and Prisons, Empire, Mass Incarceration, Racism

By Abby Martin for teleSur. United States - The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America's prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and the roots of mass incarceration. Featuring interviews with Eddie Conway, former political prisoner unjustly incarcerated for 44 years, and Eugene Puryear, author of "Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America."

After Detention & Abuse, Immigrants Find Lifesaving Support

September 14, 2015 Desiree Kane, www.shadowproof.com Create! health, Immigration, Mass Incarceration

By Desiree Kane in Shadow Proof - Deras’ experience is not unique. Other detainees have experienced neglect as well. “My experience coming here was very terrible and in detention it’s very racist.” said Eleana Muñon Cabrera. Her terrible trek across the Sonoran Desert from Mexico is written across her face, although she spoke little of it. She reported seeing dead bodies in the desert along the way and, though no measurable statistics exist, many women report being raped during the crossing. Instead of counseling her about her traumatic journey, Immigration Customs and Enforcement (I.C.E.) imprisoned Cabrera when she arrived with her now-deported brother. “I came here to reunite myself with my family and to have a better life,” she said.

Drug Warriors Have Not Given Up, Call For More Drug War

September 12, 2015 Nick Wing, Ryan Grim, Roque Planas, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Mass Incarceration, police brutality, War On Drugs, Wars and Militarism

By Nick Wing, Ryan Grim, Roque Planas - For most Americans, including some presidential candidates, the record on the U.S.-led drug war is settled: After spending more than $1 trillion on efforts that have taken or destroyed the lives of millions around the world, drug purity has risen, prices have fallen and rates of use have remained the same. It has, in no uncertain terms, been a catastrophic failure. But in an op-ed published in The Boston Globe this week, two former drug czars say we have it all wrong. It's time to "Bring back the war on drugs," they argue, and recommit to an enforcement-first policy that puts forth incarceration and interdiction as the best tools to address surging heroin overdose rates. The column, written by William J. Bennett and John P. Walters, drug czars under Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, is based on the controversial premise that the drug policies of the last quarter century have actually been effective.

Rikers Families Protest ‘No Touching’ Prison Visitation Rules

September 10, 2015 Victoria Law, www.gothamist.com Resist! Mass Incarceration, New York City (NYC), Protest, Torture

By Victoria Law in Gothamist - Trina Regis travels from Sunset Park three times a week to visit her husband, who has been jailed on Rikers Island since February. "Physical contact means so much to us," she told Gothamist. "It brings a sense of peace to me and it brings a sense of peace to him. It's a little thing he can hold on to 'til the next visit." Regis, who declined to give her husband's name or details of his case for fear of retaliation by staff, also knows firsthand how important touch can be. In early 2015, she spent five months at Rikers for shoplifting. Her husband visited twice a week. "The intimacy from a loved one means a lot," she explained. "They're showing me—I'm here for your support. I love you still, no matter how it is." But new rules proposed by the Board of Correction, which sets minimum standards and guidelines for the city's jail system, may soon limit the couple's ability to touch each other.

The Fugitive Slave Act Of 2015

September 4, 2015 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Mass Incarceration, Surveillance

By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo in Black Agenda Report - Under the ploy of fighting the surge of recent murders, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced last week that she will ask the DC City Council to significantly expand surveillance and police powers to track ex-offenders. The provisions, outlined in a Washington Post article will give police the power to “search individuals on parole or probation and immediately detain anyone found in violation of the terms of release.” If these recommendations are enacted it will amount to a 21st Century version of the Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 (amended in 1850) guaranteed the rights of a terrorist (slaveholder) to “re-kidnap” escaped Africans. The U.S. Congress passed a legal mechanism for Africans to be under surveillance, tracked and forcibly returned to American concentration camps, commonly known as plantations.

The Great Unraveling

September 3, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Democracy, Imperialism, Mass Incarceration, Neoliberalism, wealth inequality

By Chris Hedges in Truth Dig - The attraction of a Trump, like the attraction of Radovan Karadzic or Slobodan Milosevic during the breakdown of Yugoslavia, is that his buffoonery, which is ultimately dangerous, mocks the bankruptcy of the political charade. It lays bare the dissembling, the hypocrisy, the legalized bribery. There is a perverted and, to many, refreshing honesty in this. The Nazis used this tactic to take power during the Weimar Republic. The Nazis, even in the eyes of their opponents, had the courage of their convictions, however unsavory those convictions were. Those who believe something, even something repugnant, are often given grudging respect. These neoliberal forces are also rapidly destroying the ecosystem. The Earth has not had this level of climate disruption since 250 million years ago when it underwent the Permian-Triassic extinction, which wiped out perhaps 90 percent of all species.

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