mass incarceration
No right to read: Profiteering corporations creep into prison libraries
December 22, 2020Exclusive-access contracts are leaving incarcerated persons and their families no choice but to pay exorbitant private company fees to access books and communicate with one another.
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Amending the 13th Amendment: Lawmakers aim to end legalized prison slavery
December 4, 2020Sen. Jeff Merkley: 13th Amendment “continued the process of a white power class mistreating Black Americans, creating generations of poverty, family breakup, and mass incarceration."
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Prisoners and the formerly incarcerated demand the right to vote
October 14, 2020Disenfranchisement of voters is a part of our country’s racist history and will take a lot of work to be dismantled.
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Florida campaign underway to pay ‘poll taxes’ for the formerly incarcerated
September 24, 2020Without Florida, Trump's re-election hopes are doomed. That's why GOP officials there are blocking the votes of as many people as possible.
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From ‘Free Angela Davis’ to #NoNewJailsDC: Organizing against incarceration across generations
May 22, 2020The event featured elders from the Communist Party USA who were involved in the Committee to Free Angela Davis and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
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