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teachanarchy

Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison

#prisons #slavery #work #capitalism #economics

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politijohn

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#abolish prisons #prisons #criminal justice #politics #us politics #government #florida #slave labor #slavery #the left

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politijohn

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Reminder that 53% of Alabama’s prison population is black people who are incarcerated at 3x the rate as white people (source).

#prisons #alabama #prison labor #abolish prisons #criminal justice #criminal justice system #workers rights

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politijohn

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This should never have been a thing

#religion #atheist #Christianity #abolish prisons #prisons #criminal justice #atheism #government #news

sataniccapitalist

2 California Prisons Face Imminent Flooding. They Must Be Evacuated Now.

California prison authorities have a history of failing to evacuate incarcerated people for weather-related emergencies.

truthout.org|Abby Cunniff

#prisons #prisons and policing #prison industrial complex #california

sataniccapitalist

In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter

The climate crisis is raising temperatures in detention facilities across the country. Nobody is ready for it.

theintercept.com

#prisons #police #texas #climate change

sataniccapitalist

Inside the US Marshals' secretive, deadly detention empire

They're supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America's oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

www.motherjones.com

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sataniccapitalist

Chicago's jail is the biggest single site of COVID-19 infections. A judge denied inmates' pleas for release.

"Just because they are incarcerated doesn't make them any less of a person."

www.motherjones.com

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sataniccapitalist

Billionaire-Funded Criminal Justice Reform Actually Expands Carceral System

Arnold Ventures-backed reforms are undermining radical efforts to end mass incarceration in the U.S.

Truthout

#prisons #police #plutocracy #billionaires

sataniccapitalist

'No Other Path to Redress': South Carolina Prisoners Appeal to UN After State and Federal Officials Ignore Pleas for Livable Conditions

"Beyond the basic level of terror in U.S. prison conditions, conditions in South Carolina have been specifically repressive for a few years

Common Dreams

#american exceptionalism #crisis of legitimacy #criminal justice #prisons

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California set to end private prisons and immigrant detention camps

America's largest state prison system is moving to quit the practice of far...

www.reuters.com

#california #prisons

sataniccapitalist

Plans for Prison on Mountaintop-Removal Site in Kentucky Scuttled. Maybe.

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has withdrawn the $500 million proposal, but Mitch McConnell says he’s moving it forward.

truthout.org|Maureen Nandini Mitra

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sataniccapitalist

With Jailed Asylum-Seekers on the Rise, Detention Contractors Reap Profits

GEO Group and CoreCivic receive multimillion dollar contracts from DHS to run detention facilities.

truthout.org|Camille Erickson

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sataniccapitalist

As Bankers Back Away, For-Profit Prison Companies Step Up Political Spending

Under mounting pressure from critics, private-prison firms are stepping up their political influence.

truthout.org|Sue Sturgis

#prisons #corruption #systemic crisis

sataniccapitalist

Federal investigators just dropped a damning report on a notorious ICE detention center

Hellish conditions in the California facility meant "significant threats" to detainees' rights and safety.

www.motherjones.com

#prisons #ice #mass incarceration

sataniccapitalist

Exclusive: U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons

U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally.

www.reuters.com

#us #usa #immigration #prisons #exclusive

sataniccapitalist

A judge in Louisiana is letting a private company charge people to get out of jail, says the ACLU

Lawyer calls this "a court-approved shakedown."

www.motherjones.com

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