Prisons
Angela Davis: “Education must not be sacrificed at the altar of profit”
June 19, 2018Capitalism’s version of knowledge may allow us to figure out how to produce more, acquire more, and ultimately destroy more, but it will not give us an ethical sense of our responsibility to living beings.
Read moreCorporations and governments collude in prison slavery racket
February 7, 2018Enjoy the fresh fish at Whole Foods? It may have been raised by a prisoner paid pennies per day.
Read moreSolitary confinement: Prisoners and advocates target an unjust practice
March 31, 2017Outcry against the inhumane punishment of solitary confinement is coming from both policy reform advocates as well as from movements of resistance inside prison walls.
Read moreSessions revives private prisons, slamming door on justice
March 6, 2017With Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Trump’s divisive racial rhetoric is about to turn into policy.
Read moreLandmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons
September 3, 2015Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.
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