The Last Mile: Inside San Quentin’s Tech Incubator
There’s a tech incubator popping up, but it’s not in Silicon Valley—it’s inside San Quentin State Prison. The Last Mile program teaches inmates entrepreneurship skills with the goal that each...
View ArticleChicago Police Put Antlers on Black Man and Posed for Pictures
Juan Thompson writes at the Intercept: The photo shows two white Chicago Police officers posing with an unidentified black man [above]. The officers — Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan — are...
View ArticleModern Prisons and Their Predecessors
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View ArticleCorporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State
Thomas Hawk (CC BY-NC 2.0) Chris Hedges explores corporate capitalism’s role in America’s prison state. Chris Hedges via Common Dreams: Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a...
View ArticleWhen the President Goes to Prison
Jack (CC BY-ND-NC 2.0) Andrew Cohen writes at the Brennan Center for Justice: When President Barack Obama goes to Oklahoma Thursday and enters the medium-security federal prison FCI-El Reno he will be...
View ArticleThe Police: Our Enemies in Blue?
Kristian Williams is not a big fan of the police. His book Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, published by the ridiculously badass AK Press breaks it down like this: “Let’s begin with...
View ArticleHere’s how much Americans hate mandatory minimum sentences
77% of Americans say that “mandatory minimum prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders should be eliminated so that judges can make sentencing decisions on a case-by-case basis.” Christopher...
View ArticleThe secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before
Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how...
View ArticleSeven Inmates Got 20 Combined Years In Solitary Confinement For Making A...
Zero tolerance for music vids in prison. CJCiaramella via BuzzFeed News: Seven inmates in a South Carolina prison were punished with a combined total of nearly 20 years of solitary confinement — for...
View ArticleAmerica’s biggest cash crop isn’t American
How private companies make billions off of immigrants and how one woman seeks to soften the blow and offer some peace – or rather, paz. View the full episode @ActOutOnOccupy...
View ArticleThe Prison State of America
Via Truthdig: Prisons employ and exploit the ideal worker. Prisoners do not receive benefits or pensions. They are not paid overtime. They are forbidden to organize and strike. They must show up... The...
View ArticleLife in Prison for Selling $20 of Weed
This is awful. Abby Haglage via The Daily Beast: PART I On September 5, 2008, Fate Vincent Winslow watched a plainclothes stranger approach him. Homeless and hungry, on a dark street rife with... The...
View ArticleFrom Our Prison to Your Dinner Table
Via Graeme Wood at Pacific Standard: One of my daughter’s favorite stuffed animals is a chocolate-colored, beady-eyed buffalo that was stitched—lovingly, I like to think—by the hands of a convicted...
View ArticleAstounded by the Lack of Compassion for Men in Prison: Inside the...
Via the Good Men Project: Lisa Hickey: I’ve been thinking a lot about prison lately. It’s not something that, as a women, I am used to thinking about a lot, and the... The post Astounded by the Lack of...
View ArticleFor those of you who say there are no voices leading America, you need to...
For those of you who say there are no moving or powerful voices left in America, you might want to direct your attention to a 20-minute clip of American philosopher and activist... The post For those...
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