prisoners’ rights
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Former LA County deputy sheriff exposes routine violence
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca announced an internal investigation into allegations of routine police misconduct and brutality against prisoners.
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Pelican Bay solidarity event increases awareness of prison-industrial complex
Workers and students came together in San Diego Oct. 14 to discuss the prison-industrial complex and how it affects poor…
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Justice system is racist: wrong woman jailed for 53 days
In a case that illuminates the failings of the so-called justice system, a woman named Theresa Culpepper was imprisoned for…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence thrown out
The Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling throwing out the death sentence of former Black Panther and acclaimed author…
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No new youth jail!
Chanting “Books not bars” and “Education not incarceration,” hundreds marched through Baltimore Oct. 4 to protest the state’s plan to…
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Tell the MD Parole Commission to parole political prisoner Eddie Conway!
Your help is needed to support political prisoner Marshall Eddie Conway for his upcoming parole hearing on November 1.
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Medical condition of Calif. hunger strikers deteriorates
With the second phase of a massive California prisoner hunger strike in its third week, prisoners have begun to report…
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On the release from prison of René González
René González, one of the five men known as the Cuban Five, today will walk out of Federal Prison in…
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Acerca de la Liberación de la Prisión de René González
René González, uno de los cinco hombres conocidos como los Cinco Cubanos, saldrá hoy de la Prisión Federal en Marianna,…
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NYC Troy Davis march: a little glimpse of revolution
What began as a relatively “normal” speak-out against the racist death penalty had by night’s end turned into a spontaneous…
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