The Fifty-Year Revolt
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On prison organizing: Two reviews
On prison organizing: Two reviews
On prison organizing: Two reviews
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Prison Stands Between Fathers and Their Daughters in Poignant, Lovely Documentary
AV Club
A compassionate documentary told with elegiac brushstrokes, Daughters tracks the generational trauma of incarcerated fathers.
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Sing Sing Is a Humanizing Portrait of the Dehumanized
Jacobin
Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.
It’s Known As “Death by Incarceration.” These People Want To End It.
The Nation
More people are serving life sentences without parole in Pennsylvania than almost anywhere else in America. An increasingly vocal movement is trying to change that.
‘A Second Prison’: People Face Hidden Dead Ends When They Pursue a Range of Careers Post-Incarceration
The Hechinger Report
Nearly 14,000 laws and regulations restrict people who have been convicted or even just arrested from getting professional licenses
Silent No More
Stansbury Forum
It is the families and friends of men who are beaten to death behind bars who suffer the longest. It is the deepest most evil corruption that covers and enables cruelty and torture unto death.
Los Angeles Is Creating a Model for Fighting Mass Incarceration
Dissent
Abolitionists and advocates of criminal justice reform in Los Angeles County have amassed some impressive victories, laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.
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Incarcerated Meatpacking Workers Spent ‘100 Percent’ of their Time in High-Risk Settings During Pandemic
Investigate Midwest
Some meatpacking plant workers found themselves at the intersection of two of the riskiest settings during the pandemic: correctional facilities and meatpacking plants.
The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950
New York Times
Recent research indicates little progress since the Truman administration.
Immigrants Who Defend Themselves From Sexual Violence Face Prison, Deportation
Truthout
No national agency tracks the number of rape or domestic violence survivors imprisoned for self-defense. Similarly, no agency tracks the number of immigrant survivors who face detention and deportation for their self-defense actions.
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