mass incarceration
Solitary strike: Texas prisoners refuse food to protest harsh confinement practices
January 11, 2023Hundreds of prisoners may participate in the protest beginning Tuesday, the first day of the state’s legislative session. Texas often keeps prisoners in solitary confinement for years or decades.
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Indiana inmates appeal to People’s World and its readers for help
December 21, 2022Aging facilities, medical neglect, and more plague those incarcerated at Indiana’s Westville Correctional Facility.
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Left out of elections: 4.6 million with felony convictions blocked from voting
November 1, 2022Even in states where felons do have voting rights restored, actually casting a ballot can still be difficult—and even risky.
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Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires
September 23, 2022Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.
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Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, fighter against prison-industrial complex, faces cancer neglect behind bars
September 15, 2022He helped organize a prison strike against harsh conditions, now his health is being neglected. Supporters say it’s retaliation.
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