by Social Action
“According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, nearly a third of all female prisoners worldwide are incarcerated in the United States of America. There are 201,200 women in US prisons, representing 8.8 percent of the total American prison population.”
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Source: socialaction2014.wordpress.com
Mass Incarceration in ‘Land of the Free’
#NewJimCrow
#WarOnDrugs is war on people
By Tom Robbins
ATTICA, N.Y. — Three guards accused in the brutal beating of an inmate at the state prison here in 2011 each pleaded guilty on Monday to a single misdemeanor charge and agreed to quit their jobs in a last-minute deal that will avert a trial but spare them any jail time.
The case was the first time that any state corrections officers had been criminally charged with a nonsexual assault of an inmate, officials said.
The plea arrangement was announced in State Supreme Court in Wyoming County just as the guards were to have gone on trial on charges of gang assault, filing false reports and evidence tampering.
Instead, the three guards, Sgt. Sean Warner, 39, and Officers Keith Swack, 39, and Matthew Rademacher, 31, pleaded guilty to official misconduct, a misdemeanor. As part of the agreement, according to Norman Effman, one of the defense lawyers, the guards agreed to resign from their jobs to avoid jail time.
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Source: www.nytimes.com
This is one of the most horrific beatings I’ve heard of in my life, and the officers will serve no time in jail.
A 46-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three family members near the University of Chapel Hill in North Carolina.
Source: www.cnn.com
Shockingly, not only did this department fire the unhinged officer, they showed complete transparency in not only issuing a full statement, but also releasing a four and a half minute long video of the incident.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
Incarceration is only a fraction of the punishment.
The abuse that happens inside the prison compounds the punishment.
What an unjust society we live in.
Nearly 350 inmates in Florida prisons died in 2014, shattering the record for most number of prisoner deaths in a single year. Many of the cases involve suspicious circumstances and involve allegations of harsh abuse by guards, which has prompted the firings of dozens of security officers and a large-scale Department of Justice investigation into the state’s correction system. RT’s Nicholas Sanchez O’Donovan is in Miami with more details.
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Florida has a horrible history – up to present day.
Going to prison is a death sentence for some people.
When we hear ‘genocide‘ and ‘population control‘ we need to take this seriously.
#BlackLivesMatter #LatinoLivesMatter #ShutITdown
Eddie Conway and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges discuss the forms of slavery and exploitation thriving in today’s U.S. prison system – January 4, 15
Source: therealnews.com
Enslavement never ended in the U.S.
#NewJimCrow
According to new research, the size of a state’s black population—not the crime rate—is the strongest indicator of harsher punitive practices
Source: www.vocativ.com
9-19-2003
Speaker: Angela Davis, Professor in History of Consciousness and Chair of Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells.
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Source: www.globalresearch.ca
Three lawsuits allege prisoners at the Madison County, Alabama, Jail died of treatable illnesses.
Source: www.cnn.com