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Editorial: Parole consideration for those sentenced to life behind bars 35 years ago? It’s the right thing to do
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-27/editorial-california-reform-life-without-parole -
CCWP Calls for Immediate Public Health Investigation Into Preventable
Heatstroke Death at CCWF Women’s Prison
#pressrelease #California #heatstroke #CCWP #Chowchilla #womenprisoners #prison #humanrights -
‘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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Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
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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
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
L.A. County puts 66 probation officers on leave for misconduct, including sexual abuse, excessive force
The Probation Department said the announcement was intended to “regain public trust” as it roots out employees who engage in misconduct. -
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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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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More FCI Dublin women complain of retaliation, including having rifles pointed at them
"Women who were transferred away from the now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin are continuing to complain they're being retaliated against at their new facilities in Texas, Minnesota, Miami and Philadelphia,where they say they are not being given jobs that could reduce their sentences and, in one case, had rifles pointed at them to scare..."
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Kurdish political prisoners end hunger strike in Evin Prison
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Türkiye: Kurdish Politicians Convicted in Unjust Mass Trial
Court Ignores European Court of Human Rights Rulings on Abusive Proceedings
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/16/turkiye-kurdish-politicians-convicted-unjust-mass-trial
#SelahattinDemirtas #figenyuksekdag #humanrights #kurdistan #Turkey
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Turquie : le chef de file kurde Selahattin Demirtas condamné à quarante-deux ans de prison
Emprisonné depuis 2016, M. Demirtas était poursuivi pour 47 chefs d’accusations, parmi lesquels celui d’atteinte à l’unité de l’Etat et à l’intégrité territoriale, et d’incitation à commettre un crime.
#SelahattinDemirtas #figenyuksekdag #droitsdelhomme #kurdistan #HDP #DEM
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“To Be Free Is to Free Others”: Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration
The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
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April 21, 2024 - Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.
Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir “Den of Lions,” died on Sunday at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, said his daughter...
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US senators demand answers on closure plan for California women's prison where inmates were sexually abused
8 FCI Dublin inmates sued the Bureau of Prisons, alleging the agency had failed to root out sexual abuse at the CA facility#FCIDublin #women #prison #prisonerabuse #sexualabuse #FBOP #bop
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FCI Dublin prison closure: Women describe horrific journey across U.S.
DUBLIN, Calif. - Dozens of women have shared horrific-sounding bus rides to prisons across the country as the Bureau of Prisons abruptly shut down FCI Dublin last week. Most report that they are getting blamed for the closure because they used their voice to complain about sexual abuse at the East Bay facility.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/fci-dublin-prison-closure-women-describe-horrific-journey-across-u-s
#womeninprison #California #FCIDublin #Federalprisons #abuse #humanrights
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Chaotic Dublin prison closure leads to fighting, crying, cutting, inmates say.
“I understand that we’re criminals,” one inmate says. “But we’re still human beings.”
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Fact sheet issued by Prisoners' Institutions on the eve of "Palestinian Prisoner's Day" on April 17, 2024
https://www.addameer.org/media/5320
#Palestinianprisoners #prisoners #Israeliprisons #administrativedetention
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CURB’s NEW website is LIVE! You can visit at www.curbprisonspending.org
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At 17, I was jailed for a murder I didn’t commit – and spent seven life-changing years in prison
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Prison Jobs: Working Hard, Hardly Paid
"So when you go back to society, you have a disadvantage in the things that are available to you, but yet you're spending all these years in prison using your labor, and that labor is not being used to help prepare you for the society you're going back to."
https://www.kalw.org/podcast/uncuffed/2024-04-16/prison-jobs-working-hard-hardly-paid
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A Texas Jail Delayed My Prenatal Care to Keep Costs Down. Then I Had a Miscarriage.
Collin County Jail failed to send a bleeding, cramping Lauren Kent to an outside OB-GYN. In a lawsuit, she blames their “cost-containment” strategyhttps://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/07/texas-miscarriage-collin-county-jail-wellpath
#Texas #jail #pregnancy #prenatalcare #miscarriage #humanrights
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Kevin Rashid Johnson is a prisoner activist who is being retaliated against in serious ways. He was just moved to supermax in VA. He also suffers from cancer and heartfailure. Please help raise awareness, write him, write or call the prison authorities:
#prisoners #KevinRashidJohnson #retaliation #supermax #solitaryconfinement @keribla @igd_news