Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.
California poet Anonymous lampoons James “Bulldog” Uthmeier, Florida Attorney General, who coined the name of the infamous Everglades detention center.
In Texas state prisons, survivors are force-fed a steady diet of Fox News and content from white Christian nationalist organizations, shaping how they understand power and the violence they have experienced.
A system of concentration camps is being built and it's time the nation reckon with this monstrosity before any more people are killed. ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration.
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Massive, industrial spaces, built for holding goods to be shipped elsewhere. Warehouses are drafty and difficult to heat, hard-floored and high-ceilinged, not meant for human habitation. But Trump's ICE is aiming to convert them into detention camps
Using nutritious, local ingredients in a prison setting to cook food from scratch is far from the norm. MVRCF is one of a handful of correctional facilities throughout the country serving fresh food crafted from area products.
Once out of prison, it felt like the world was shifting beneath my feet, and even the weather conspired to keep me off balance
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
Poet Susan Kelly Dewitt takes us inside the mind and heart of the lockhouse.
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