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UN Human Rights Committee Calls for Moratorium on Life Without Parole in U.S.
On Oct17-18, in Geneva, a coalition of groups fighting death by incarceration joined more than 140 representatives of U.S. civil society organizations and directly impacted people in petitioning the U.N. to hold the U.S. government accountable. The groups addressed the U.S. policy and practice of death by incarceration, which they said violates
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These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives
A new report highlights the experiences those sentenced to death by incarceration in Pennsylvania’s women’s prisons.
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Project invites the public to sit face-to-face with men serving life sentences
KALW: Nearly 5,000 people are sentenced to die in Louisiana prisons without any possibility of parole.
The Visiting Room Project is the largest collection of first person testimonials ever gathered from people serving this sentence. We’ll speak with two participants of the project who were recently freed and find out what it’s like to re-enter the world after decades ...
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Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on the city’s ‘hard turn to the right’
Chesa Boudin was San Francisco’s top prosecutor for less than three years. In that short time he became a potent symbol of a movement to rethink crime and punishment’s promise —and its perils
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/24/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-interview-00137358
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The Yuba Liberation Coalition (YLC) is thrilled to share that the Intergovernmental Services Agreement (IGSA) between ICE and Yuba County Jail will end! This means that ICE will finally cease using Yuba County Jail as a facility to detain individuals in federal immigration proceedings for the first time in twenty-eight years. This marks an end to the last immigration detention contract with a California county!
https://www.ccijustice.org/post/breaking-last-ice-contract-with-a-california-county-jail-terminated
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LWOP Walk for Life 2024 is organized by the incarcerated members of
the 2nd Chance 2 Society for LWOPs group at Valley State Prison (VSP). 100% of net
proceeds will be donated to Shriners Children'sTM Northern California.
You can also donate here:
https://donate.lovetotherescue.org/fundraiser/5308460
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She repeatedly reported a prison guard’s sexual abuse. It took years for officials to believe her
Exclusive: Nilda Palacios fought to prove a California sergeant had assaulted and stalked her – by the time her claims were ‘sustained’, he’d quietly resigned#CDCr #California #prisonguard #sexualabuse #abuse #women #TonyOrmonde #cowards
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Prison Mathematics Project Ventures Beyond Walls
The Prison Mathematics Project uses a special system to let inmates do hard math calculations, helping them learn and solve problems.
#PrisonMath, #InmateEducation, #MathProject, #ProblemSolving, #CriminalJusticeReform
https://newsletter.tf/prison-math-project-inmates-solve-problems/
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The new Prison Mathematics Project lets inmates work on complex math problems without computers. This helps them learn new skills and solve problems.
#PrisonMath, #InmateEducation, #MathProject, #ProblemSolving, #CriminalJusticeReform
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From Bolts:
His Shock Win Flipped a Pennsylvania County. Now He Vows to Raise Hell over Its Lethal Jail.Pastor and activist Justin Douglas will soon be plunged into an insider role, helping run the state’s capital county. Can he leverage his new power to change Harrisburg's deadly facility?
(Dec. 21, 2023)https://boltsmag.org/dauphin-county-commissioners-jail-deaths/
See also: Run for Something https://runforsomething.net/
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From Bolts:
His Shock Win Flipped a Pennsylvania County. Now He Vows to Raise Hell over Its Lethal Jail.Pastor and activist Justin Douglas will soon be plunged into an insider role, helping run the state’s capital county. Can he leverage his new power to change Harrisburg's deadly facility?
(Dec. 21, 2023)https://boltsmag.org/dauphin-county-commissioners-jail-deaths/
See also: Run for Something https://runforsomething.net/
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From Bolts:
His Shock Win Flipped a Pennsylvania County. Now He Vows to Raise Hell over Its Lethal Jail.Pastor and activist Justin Douglas will soon be plunged into an insider role, helping run the state’s capital county. Can he leverage his new power to change Harrisburg's deadly facility?
(Dec. 21, 2023)https://boltsmag.org/dauphin-county-commissioners-jail-deaths/
See also: Run for Something https://runforsomething.net/
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From Bolts:
His Shock Win Flipped a Pennsylvania County. Now He Vows to Raise Hell over Its Lethal Jail.Pastor and activist Justin Douglas will soon be plunged into an insider role, helping run the state’s capital county. Can he leverage his new power to change Harrisburg's deadly facility?
(Dec. 21, 2023)https://boltsmag.org/dauphin-county-commissioners-jail-deaths/
See also: Run for Something https://runforsomething.net/
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Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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When News Outlets Fabricate Stories
SB 94 would simply allow judges to consider mitigating circumstances that are important to courts today, but were not thought of three decades ago.
By Devin D. Williamshttps://www.laprogressive.com/prison-reform-2/when-news-outlets-fabricate-stories
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URGENT CALL TO ACTION for Leonard Peltier
The BOP has deprived Leonard of necessary medical care for decades and in doing so has sentenced Leonard to Death By Incarceration. Locked down for 22 hours a day in maximum security prison USP Coleman I, Leonard, who is almost 80 years old, suffers from multiple severe health conditions. Leonard’s current conditions include kidney disease, heart condition, diabetes, high blood pressure, ...
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Stop the deportation of a peaceful climate activist!
"My partner Marcus Decker is being threatened with deportation - because he joined a peaceful protest against the government's inaction on the climate crisis. Please help us and sign this petition calling on the Home Office to stop his deportation."
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-deportation-of-a-peaceful-climate-activist?signed=true
#petition #climatecrisis #MarcusDecker #UK #prison #politicalprisoners
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‘Help us, we can’t breathe’: Inmate at California women’s prison dies during heat wave
A woman incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla died Saturday during a statewide heat wave and prisoner advocates are blaming her death on heat exhaustion.
(8 July 2024)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/help-us-inmate-california-women-s-prison-19561544.php#prison #heatwave #cruelandunusual #CCWF #womenprisoners #prisondeaths
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California Women's Prisons Sexual Abuse Response and Prevention Working Group Report
In response to ongoing reports of sexual abuse by prison staff, the Solidarity Committee for Incarcerated Survivors was formed in December 2022 by Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Survived & Punished CA, and UnCommon Law.
Read the report here: https://www.sisterwarriors.org/prison_sexualassault_report
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Woman who testified about conditions at FCI Dublin, thrown in solitary, transferred
A woman who has spent years of her prison sentence at FCI Dublin, and who testified about the dire conditions there this month, was thrown in a special housing unit and transferred away from the facility, she told KTVU.
"It was purely retaliation for my testimony," Rhonda Fleming wrote KTVU in an email. "The prison officials did not ...
https://www.ktvu.com/news/woman-who-testified-about-conditions-at-fci-dublin-thrown-in-solitary-transferred
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29 women in prison allege sexual abuse by guard who was fired but never charged with crimes
"Twenty-nine women in state prison say they were sexually abused, some for many years, by a guard who was eventually fired but was never criminally prosecuted.The women have filed a lawsuit against the state and 100 unnamed co-workers of Israel Trevino at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla who allegedly..."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/chowchilla-prison-lawsuits-18402440.php
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Gavin Newsom’s Prison Reform Isn’t Progress—It’s a ‘Near Enemy’
By Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
Californians have been demanding a course correction away from mass incarceration for over a decade, and earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom announced his “California Model” for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), an ill-defined set of proposals sold as a ...https://theappeal.org/gavin-newsom-california-model-prison-reform/