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Tag Archives: prison industrial complex
House of no justice
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: “I am an inmate at New Folsom State Prison and was personally involved in the statewide hunger strike that started on July 1 in protest of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitiation’s (CDCR) practices … Continue reading
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Tagged California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Prison Focus, CDCR, criminal injustice system, Cruel and unusual punishment, Folsom State Prison, gang status criteria, healthcare, Hunger strike, isolation, prison industrial complex, prisoners, Represa California, security housing unit, shu, Solitary confinement, Terry Thornton
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Readers’ Views, May-June 2014
From the May-June 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views LABOR AND IMMIGRATION On April 8, about 100 people, the majority young Latinas/os, gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall to protest the deportation of immigrants. Obama’s administration … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion rights, Arab spring, criminal injustice system, disability rights, Egypt, feminism, immigrant labor, Iranian Revolution of 1979, labor, Middle East revolutions, patriarchy, Pelican Bay hunger strikers, people with disabilities, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, Russia, sexism, Tahrir Square, Ukraine, undocumented workers, women's liberation, workers
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Handicap This! May-June 2014
Hungary’s discrimination; violence against women with disabilities in EU; Jenny Hatch wins right to make her own decisions; death of Michael Anthony Kerr, a North Carolina prisoner with disabilities. Continue reading
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Tagged criminal injustice system, disability rights, Down syndrome, European Union, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Hampton Virginia, Hungary, International Women's Day, Jenny Hatch, Jim Talbert, Kelly Morris, Michael Anthony Kerr, North Carolina, prison industrial complex, prisoners, Raleigh, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Violence against women
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‘We do change in prison’
“When I came to prison, I was angry. I was hurt—physically, mentally and spiritually. I have fought very hard to become a person who lives with dignity.” Continue reading
Revolt and retrogression at home
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015: From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy. II. Revolt and retrogression at home. A. Women under attack. B. Many dimensions of revolt Continue reading
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Tagged abortion access, Affordable Care Act, African Americans, birth control, Charles Murray, Chicago, clinic escorts, Coming out of the Shadows, Contraception, criminal injustice system, domestic violence, feminism, Florida, food stamps, Health care, immigrant workers, International Women's Day, Kyle Tasker, labor, Living wage, low-wage workers, Marissa Alexander, Medicaid, Minimum wage, Moral Mondays, Paul Ryan, poverty, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, sexism, South Carolina, Truthful Tuesdays, undocumented workers, United States, women's liberation
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Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 2
Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 2. Continue reading
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Tagged anti-abortion, Charles Denby, Ciudad Juárez, climate change, clinic escorts, criminal injustice system, Elie Wiesel, environment, Escuelita Zapatista, femicido, feminicido, feminism, fossil fuels, global warming, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, labor, Nuclear power, patriarchy, Pelican Bay State Prison, philosophy, Primo Levi, prison industrial complex, prisoners, sexism, Walter Benjamin, women's liberation, workers, Yeyetzi Cardiel, Zapatistas
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California legislators ignore hunger strikers’ voices
Sacramento, Calif.–At the Legislative Hearings on Feb. 11, experts presented their analyses, which showed that even the very small changes California Department of Corrections (CDC) said they were implementing, in fact they are not. No policies are being changed to address the problems brought out by prisoners and their families. One family member was taking the legislators to task, saying that the promises of reform the legislators vow to make now, they made 10 years ago. Nothing changed. Things got worse. Continue reading
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Tagged Antonio Guillen, Arturo Castellanos, Billy Sell, California, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, CDCR, Corcoran State Prison, Crescent City California, criminial injustice system, Marie Levin, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, Pelican Bay State Prison, prison industrial complex, security housing unit, shu, Sitawa Jamaa, Solitary confinement, Todd Ashker
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Readers’ Views, Jan.-Feb. 2014, Part 2
From the January-February 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, Part 2 ENVIRONMENT UNDER THREAT Recently I attended a talk near Berkeley, Calif., by a retired professor about the effect of environmental damage on political instability in the Middle … Continue reading
Prison privatization is a crime
On Dec. 1, Aramark Correctional Services will begin running Food Service for the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), creating another sector of low-wage workers in Michigan. In a state struggling with a high unemployment rate and flooded with low-wage dead-end jobs, 60,000 in the fast-food sector in the metro Detroit area alone, why would the state government choose to add to these statistics? Continue reading
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Tagged Aramark Correctional Services, CMS, Corizon Inc., Correctional Medical Services Inc., criminal injustice system, fast food workers, healthcare, Jennifer Granholm, Keefe Commissary Network, Living wage, low-wage workers, MDOC, Michael McCabe, Michigan Department of Corrections, Oakland County Jail, PHS, Prison Health Services Inc., prison industrial complex, Prison Legal News, prisoners, privatization
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