This is not just a month of mourning — it’s a time for mobilization and recommitment to prison abolition.
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In Black August, We Turn Destructive Spaces into Laboratories For Liberation Read Post »
Private prison giants now hold 90 percent of detained immigrants and aim to triple capacity for $1.5 billion in revenue.
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Immigration Detention Has Become a Booming Business for Private Prison Giants Read Post »
I have been repeatedly subjected to chemical weapons. It’s torture by another name.
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Texas Prison Guards Routinely Use Tear Gas on Incarcerated Women. It Must Stop. Read Post »
The lawsuit says the denial of care violates the Eight Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
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Trans People in Georgia Prisons Sue Over Law Barring Gender-Affirming Care Read Post »
As ICE expands its presence across the Midwest, activists fight the reopening of private prisons to jail migrants.
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A Fight Is Brewing in the Midwest Over Immigrant Mass Detention Read Post »
On the company’s earnings call, one participant congratulated executives on “the positive news.”
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Anti-Immigrant Agenda Means “Unprecedented Growth Opportunities” for GEO Group Read Post »
Biden’s DOJ concluded that Louisiana and South Carolina had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings.
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Trump Admin Halts Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses in Prisons, Group Homes Read Post »
Last fall, retired Judge Karen Radius leaned on her cane as she walked me toward the girls’ housing unit at Hawaii’s only youth prison, remembering the moment three years ago when she’d learned no more girls were living there. For Radius, a disarmingly matter-of-fact 76-year-old who’d spent much of her career trying to keep teens […]
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A Revolutionary Way to End the Incarceration of Girls Read Post »
Last fall, retired Judge Karen Radius leaned on her cane as she walked me toward the girls’ housing unit at Hawaii’s only youth prison, remembering the moment three years ago when she’d learned no more girls were living there. For Radius, a disarmingly matter-of-fact 76-year-old who’d spent much of her career trying to keep teens […]
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A Revolutionary Way to End the Incarceration of Girls Read Post »
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), now the best-funded federal law enforcement agency in the United States, is embarking on a plan to drastically expand its detention infrastructure. But considering the $45 billion it’s been given for the job, the agency’s vision for its new facilities seems startlingly low-tech. In July, the Wall Street Journal got […]
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ICE Plans to Build More Tent Jails for Immigrants. What Could Go Wrong? Read Post »
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), now the best-funded federal law enforcement agency in the United States, is embarking on a plan to drastically expand its detention infrastructure. But considering the $45 billion it’s been given for the job, the agency’s vision for its new facilities seems startlingly low-tech. In July, the Wall Street Journal got […]
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ICE Plans to Build More Tent Jails for Immigrants. What Could Go Wrong? Read Post »
My bunk gets sweaty when I lay it in. The walls sweat, too — you can see it. We’re in an oven. It’s too hot.
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Eight Prisons in Virginia Lack AC in 108-Degree Heat. I Am Stuck in One of Them. Read Post »
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