prisoner rights – Page 2

San Quentin vigil says incarceration has become a death sentence

July 27, 2020 By David Bacon

The coronavirus infection spread rapidly through San Quentin. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR], as of the date of the vigil, there were 928 active cases and eleven prisoners had died.

Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic

May 12, 2020 By Robin McDowell And Margie Mason

As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.

Coronavirus threatens to spread ‘like wildfire’ through U.S. prisons

April 10, 2020 By John Bachtell

Rights advocates say that unless the prison population is drastically reduced the contagion will get out to the general public.

Storied national civil rights group re-founded at Chicago gathering

November 27, 2019 By John Bachtell

Angela Davis helps launch the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, aims to end police violence

Prison documentary Stateville Calling: What if rehabilitation was a human right?

September 4, 2019 By Michelle Zacarias

The hour-long documentary follows the current battle to pass legislation reinstating parole in Illinois, which the state hasn’t had since 1978.