Prison

In Police State USA Kids Go To Camp, In Prison

June 17, 2016 William N. Grigg, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Children, Police State, Prison

By William N. Grigg for Mint Press News - Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a relentless self-promoter who christened himself “The World’s Toughest Sheriff,” has invited Phoenix-area parents to send their grade school and teenage kids to jail for the summer. “Summer Stars” is a two-day program supposedly intended to teach impressionable youngsters about the rigors of life behind bars, thereby deterring them from bad behavior. The program will be held in two sessions – June 23-24, and July 21-22 – and will be open for students from ages 8 to 18.

Freedom Rider: September 9th Prison Strike

June 16, 2016 Margaret Kimberley, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Prison, Strikes

By Margaret Kimberley for Black Agenda Report - Prison inmates around the country have organized to resist the world’s largest and most profitable system of human bondage. Mass Black incarceration marks the U.S. as a racist police state. “When we stand up to these authorities,” say the prisoners, “they come down on us, and the only protection we have is solidarity from the outside.” All decent men and women must answer the call to action from the belly of the gulag in September.

North Carolina Cuts Use Of Prison Torture In Half

June 6, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! North Carolina, Prison, Torture

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - RALEIGH, North Carolina — Half as many prisoners in North Carolina face solitary confinement, thanks to dedicated efforts to cut back on the controversial practice often equated with torture. “Last spring, roughly 5,330 of the state’s 38,000 prisoners – 1 in 7 – were segregated from other inmates on any given day,” wrote Taylor Knopf on May 26 in the News & Observer. “By this month, that number had been reduced to 2,540.”

Gary Tyler Freed From Angola After 42 Years, Sentence Illegal

May 6, 2016 Staff, www.nola.com Resist! Angola, political prisoners, Prison

By Staff of The Associated Press - After almost 42 years at Louisiana's maximum security prison, Gary Tyler is a free man. Tyler had been jailed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola since he was 16, convicted of first-degree murder for the 1974 slaying of a fellow Destrehan High School student amid rising racial tensions surrounding school integration. Now 57, he was released Friday. Norris Henderson, a counselor working with Tyler to help ease his re-entry into society, said Tyler's first reaction after walking out of Angola was relief.

One Chart Perfectly Captures America’s Massive Prison Problem

March 24, 2016 Jamilah King, www.mic.com Educate! Mass Incarceration, Prison, United States

By Jamilah King for Mic - We often speak about America's prison problem in vague, amorphous terms. For instance, the phrase "mass incarceration" has become commonplace, but even it can obscure the true scale of having an estimated 2.3 million people behind bars. But here's one graph that shows how many people are incarcerated in state prisons, local jails and federal detention facilities, and for what offenses:

Israeli Activist: They ‘Won’t Be Able To Break Us’

January 24, 2016 Ali Abunimah, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Israel, Palestine, Police abuse, Political Prisoner, Prison

By Ali Abunimah for the Electronic Intifada. An Israeli court ordered the immediate, unconditional release of Palestinian human rights defender Nasser Nawaja on Thursday, but as of Friday morning he remained in custody. Lawyers are filing a motion against Israeli police for contempt of court. Nawaja, who works as a field researcher for B’Tselem in the occupied West Bank, was picked up as part of an intensifying crackdown on Israeli human rights groups. Butavia, being transported while in police custody, alleges that Israeli police are working hand in hand with Ad Kan. “The people sitting across from me [during interrogation] had Ad Kan forms in their hands,” Butavia states. “They simply received all the questions and the entire interrogation, ready made, from Ad Kan. The Israeli police is working for the Shomron Settlement Committee.” “This is entirely a political arrest. It’s whole purpose is to undermine our activity for human rights in the [occupied] territories and against the crimes and criminals of the occupation,”

Last Incarcerated NATO 3 Member May Die In Prison

January 24, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Nato 3, Police abuse, Political Prisoner, Prison

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadowproof. Jared Chase is the last member of the “NATO 3,” who remains in prison. Chase suffers from Huntington’s disease and faces additional charges for alleged aggravated battery against a prison guard. He is set to go on trial in April. Chase, Brian Jacob Church and Brent Betterly came to Chicago in May 2012 for protests against NATO. They became known as the “NATO 3” after they were targeted by undercover Chicago police and arrested on May 16. The state of Illinois accused the “NATO 3” of making explosives. On February 7, 2014, after a lengthy trial in which the key role of undercover cops became even more apparent, a jury acquitted the “NATO 3” of all terrorism charges. But they were found guilty of arson-related offenses and “mob action” charges. Betterly, who was released from prison in April 2015, was last with Chase while they were beat up by guards during their arrival at the Stateville prison’s receiving center. During a recent pretrial hearing on December 7, 2015, Chase showed up to court with a black eye and a swollen face. Betterly said he’s lost a considerable amount of weight, perhaps fifty pounds.

Mumia In Court: Devastating Cross Examination

December 23, 2015 Noelle Hanrahan, www.prisonradio.org/ Resist! Healthcare, Human Rights, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison, Prisoner rights

By Noelle Hanrahan for Prison Radio. It was a day of dueling doctors, admissions, explosive documents, and first hand testimony, which debated the constitutional right to health care while in prison. The question: does Mumia Abu-Jamal receive life saving new anti viral drugs that cure Hepatitis C? or will Judge Robert Mariani's federal court allow the Department of Corrections in Pennsylvania to deny any treatment for chronic Hepatitis C - and maintain (a just revealed protocol) that calls for "denying care" and "monitoring imates" while the virus ravages the body causing irreversible organ damage. In an explosive revelation: Bret Grote of the Abolitionist Law Center, dissected the testimony of DOC defense witness infirmary administrator, Mr. Steinhart - revealing that there is a written Hep C treatment protocol that was developed this year. Overheard in the courtroom, DOC associate defense counsel noted that they did not want this document available publically because it would increase the department's liability in the class action pending for inmate Hep C treatment.

Hunger Strike Update: Jason Robb Joins Strike & New Ways To Support

November 14, 2015 Staff, www.lucasvilleamnesty.org Resist! Ohio, Prison

By Staff of Lucasville Amnesty - For the past 4 days, Keith LaMar has been on hunger strike, protesting cruel restrictions that are arbitrarily being put in place by the new warden, Chris LaRose, at Ohio State Penitentiary. Keith was joined yesterday on hunger strike by fellow death row inmate, Jason Robb. What are their exact demands? 1. To allow the 5A long-termers (Keith LaMar, S.A. Hasan, Jason Robb and James Were) to keep all their books—consistently with other death row inmates in Ohio—tools which are crucial to their surviving the rigors of solitary confinement...

The FCC Aims To Lower Cost Of Prison Phone Calls In Historic Vote

October 21, 2015 Brian Dolinar, www.truth-out.org Resist! FCC, Prison

By Brian Dolinar for Truth Out - For Annette Taylor of Illinois, weekly phone calls are a lifeline, connecting her to the two sons she has in prison. "Getting those phone calls keeps us going," she said, "not just them inside, but us too." Although she has been convicted of no crime, she feels she is also being punished by the high cost of these calls. Thousands of mothers like Taylor are soon to see their phone bills reduced. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to make a decision this month that will overhaul the industry that for decades has been making millions from phone calls made by incarcerated people throughout the United States.

Newsletter – Black August, End Neo-Slavery, Resist

August 30, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Arctic drilling, Carbon, Drought, Environmental racism, Fight for 15, Finance and the Economy, Fracking, Gas, Guaranteed basic income, Hurrican Katrina, Iran, Japan, Jeju Island, Korea, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Oil, Okinawa, Peace, Political Prisoner, Prison, Prison Labor, Private Prisons, Racism, Solar Energy, Sustainable energy, TISA, TPP, TTIP, Wars and Militarism, Wind, Worker Cooperative, Youth imprisonment

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - Black August is coming to an end as we commemorate the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. As many head back to school, a full season of actions are being planned for the fall to stop the corporate takeover of our communities and world and the push toward neo-slavery. There is a lot of resistance going on. We hope that you have an opportunity this summer to relax and build up your energy for the many actions that are being planned for the fall. If you go to a park, there is one more thing you can do: take a moment to think about the people who inhabited the land before it became a park.

Mumia Abu-Jamal Has Hepatitis C: Demand Treatment Now!

August 6, 2015 Noelle Hanrahan, www.prisonradio.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Political Prisoner, Prison

By Noelle Hanrahan for Prison Radio - Mumia Abu-Jamal remains weak, ill, and in the prison infirmary. Five months after being admitted to the hospital with lethal blood sugar levels and in renal failure, he continues to have a debilitating skin rashes, open wounds and swelling across his lower extremities. Because of our relentless demands for medical testing and treatment, we finally know the likely cause of his severe ailments: Hepatitis C. But what is news to us is not news to his jailers. Prison officials have known that Mumia was Hep. C positive since 2012-- and have done nothing. Even now that prison doctors know that Mumia's Hep. C is active -from testing they performed solely because we demanded it-they are refusing to provide treatment. Today, we are going back to court to demand justice for our brother.

Court Fees Trap Ex-Inmates In A Prison Of Debt

August 5, 2015 E. Tammy Kim, www.america.aljazeera.com Educate! Debt, Mass Incarceration, Prison

By E. Tammy Kim in Al Jazeera - In Washington, a state whose progressive reputation masks a tough-on-crime undercurrent, defendants and prisoners are charged “user fees” that fund the state and local systems designed to put them away. Those who do not or cannot pay are at risk of arrest and reimprisonment. It’s a national trend: In nearly every state, offenders pay for court costs, representation by a public defender, jail and probation, and fees are on the rise. The county clerk’s offices that depend most on these sums routinely refer to defendants as “customers”. Since 2003, Spokane County, home to about half a million people, has more than doubled what it collects in these legal financial obligations, or LFOs, from criminal defendants.

Prison Art Arrives At Governor’s Island In “Escaping Time” Show

August 3, 2015 Sarah Cascone, www.news.artnet.com Create! Art, Mass Incarceration, Prison

By Sarah Cascone in Artnet - "Escaping Time: Art From U.S. Prisons," an exhibition opening this weekend on Governor's Island, looks to highlight the power of rehabilitation. Featuring 200 artworks including pieces by noted prisoner-turned-painter Anthony Papa as well as condemned killer Charles Manson (but not by recently-killed escapee Richard W. Matt), the show also serves as a reminder of the island's historic past. Today, Governors Island is New York's summer playground, a picturesque island full of art, bike trails, and shaded picnic spots, but not that long ago, its 19th-century fort, Castle Williams, was actually used as a prison, first during the Civil War, and later for offenders within the US Army. "Art offers prisoners a new conviction that, although their circumstances may seem inescapable, their memories, experiences, and hopeful dispositions are preserved," explained curator Anastasia Voron, director of exhibitions at New York's Wallplay, in a statement.

U.N. Remains Barred From Visiting U.S. Prisons Amid Abuse Charges

July 23, 2015 Thalif Deen, www.ipsnews.net Educate! Mass Incarceration, Prison, Torture, United Nations

By Thalif Deen in IPS News - When U.S. President Barack Obama visited the El Reno Correctional Facility in Oklahoma last week to check on living conditions of prisoners incarcerated there, no one in authority could prevent him from visiting the prison. Obama, the first sitting president to visit a federal penitentiary, said “in too many places, black boys and black men, and Latino boys and Latino men experience being treated different under the law.” The visit itself was described as “unprecedented” and “historic.” But the United Nations has not been as lucky as the U.S. president was. Several U.N. officials, armed with mandates from the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, have been barred from U.S. penitentiaries which are routinely accused of being steeped in a culture of violence.

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