#prisonersrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #prisonersrights, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/47490/ Critically ill Kurdish prisoner dies after repeated pleas for sentence suspension #CouncilOfForensicMedicine(ATK) #CriticallyIllPrisoners #HumanRights #MehmetEdipTaşar #PrisonConditions #PrisonersRights #Stockholm #SuspendedSentence #Sweden #Turkey
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Well this is a fucking horrifying read about a practice that needs to be banned immediately.
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At the time of his death, Spring was being illegally detained. The previous day, Dec. 23, 2022, a judge had ordered his release.What happened next was only revealed when reporters obtained internal staff incident reports.
Guards describe Spring, who’d been diagnosed with schizophrenia, as unstable and having difficulty managing his emotions.
A fight broke out with another inmate and correctional officers intervened. Guards pepper-sprayed the young man and forced him into a spit hood, a head covering made of mesh and fabric that first responders put on people to protect themselves from being spit on.
Handcuffed and hooded, Spring was thrown into a shower, where he was pepper-sprayed once more. When staff took him to his cell, they realized Spring was no longer breathing.
❞The full, much more horrifying article, is available at the link:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spit-hoods-misuse-deaths-9.7107138 -
Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/health/periods-tampons-prison-punishment
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Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/health/periods-tampons-prison-punishment
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Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/health/periods-tampons-prison-punishment
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Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/health/periods-tampons-prison-punishment
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Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/health/periods-tampons-prison-punishment
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Jesus fucking Christ.
#ThisCantBeReformed #AbolishPrisons❝
Inmates in their underwear, their heads bowed and hands zip-tied, sit cross-legged facing the wall while jail guards in riot gear train laser-pointed pepper-ball guns at the backs of their heads.Surveying the scene as he walks through the hallway, the jail’s superintendent doles out congratulatory fist bumps and back pats.
❞Edited to add no-paywall link, thanks to @DavidM_yeg
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Phone Zap:
❝Carrying out a hunger strike for nearly eight weeks is either an act of insanity or extreme desperation. A Virginia court has already ruled that Rashid is competent to make his own decisions. This must mean that he believes he is already facing a life-or-death situation by not receiving necessary medical care.❞Please contact Director Dotson. It may save a courageous man’s life.
Chadwick Dotson
Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 804-674-3000
(Not his direct line. Call this number and ask to be connected with his office.)WHY?
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For the first month of the hunger strike, Rashid was kept in a cell with no running water. He was denied bottled water, along with soap, toothpaste and other hygiene items. The only water he had to drink was from the toilet, which he was not able to clean.
❞https://www.anarchistfederation.net/take-action-help-save-kevin-rashid-johnsons-life/
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Cheney says Stefanik calling Jan. 6 prisoners hostages a ‘disgrace’
#CheneyStefanikDisgrace #Jan6Prisoners #HouseNews #PoliticalDebate #PrisonersRights #FreeSpeech #Politics #News
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Did you know it's really hard to get access to a variety of books in prison? Did you know illiteracy is a huge issue among the prison population? Did you also know you can sponsor a prisoner to bring them quality books each month?
The good folks over at AK Press have a prisoner support program under their "Friends of AK Press" subscription service, where, for $15/mo, you can bring radical literature to some of society’s most oppressed individuals.
Prisoners are perhaps the most disempowered group in the US. Neo-nazi, white supremacist, and other gangs target prisoners for recruitment, preying on their vulnerable status as criminals. Bringing radical leftist literature to prisoners can help interrupt that process. Do you want to make a tangible difference in the world? Do you have $15 to spare a month? Then sponsor a prisoner, link with more details below
https://www.akpress.org/friends-prisoner.html ✊#PrisonAbolition #PrisonersRights #PrisonerAdvocacy #Books #Literacy #Literature #AKPress
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Why are we* here?
This police presence is for a PRESS CONFERENCE.Local AND Provincial cops here to intimidate people.
*Specifically Legal Observers from the Movement Defence Committee.
#LOLife #LegalObservers #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PrisonersRights #PrisonersJusticeDay
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Presser is about to start.
No more deaths in custody.
At the Solicitor General's office.#PrisonersRights #TorontoActions #CommunityDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #Abolitionists #PrisonersJusticeDay
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Ex-correctional officer charged with sexually abusing 3 inmates in California federal prison cells - and he’s just the tip of the iceberg. Even the prison chaplain at this facility has plead guilty to abuse - in the prison CHAPEL. I was taught the three guiding principals of the justice system are: retribution, deterrence and rehabilitation. We send convicts to prison as retribution for their crimes, to deter them and others from committing the same crimes, and importantly, to rehabilitate the offenders so they can successfully re-enter society as productive and safe citizens. Abusing inmates for personal sexual gratification is NOT on that list. #prisons #FederalPrisons #incarcerations #jail #legal #prisonersrights https://apnews.com/95b4ab563c1983c77a65a743e534968a