The legal justice system does everything it possibly can to strip people behind bars of their humanity, separate them from their families, and not provide the adequate care that human beings deserve.
As the numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases climb inside the nation’s jails and prisons, incarcerated people and their family members fear for their lives.
The penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came.
Pandemic is a systemic crisis of capitalism, and the responses worldwide foretell systemic changes.
Even social distancing sparks a culture war. Even Britney gets woke. And more revelations
As communities across the world are confronting the serious toll of COVID-19..., we at Critical Resistance want to amplify the grave concerns facing the imprisoned population, which is one of the most vulnerable groups in this time.
“Although we’re here because we committed crimes, it’s hard to say that there aren’t parallels with slavery.” Lenox Ramsay, 30
More prisoners have died at Guantánamo than have been convicted by the military commissions. 2019 was a bad year for justice for former and present Guantánamo prisoners, and not just prisoners subject to the military commission process.
A protracted legal saga at Guantánamo Bay ended last month, when a federal court tossed out two years of rulings by the judge overseeing the military tribunal trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, alleged leader of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
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