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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Young Man with Asperger’s Syndrome Faces 10 Years for Police Brutality
Reposted by request of the family: Young man with Asperger’s syndrome responds appropriately to police by George Sand Posted on April 29, 2011. Reginald “Neli” Latson, a 19 year-old, sat in the grass outside the library and waited for it … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Mental Health
Tagged Abuse, Arrest, Asperger syndrome, Autism spectrum, Calverley, Health, Mental Health, neli, police brutality, reginald latson, Virginia
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Million Dollar Neighborhoods report – How Much Do You Invest in Police & Prisons?
With Providence on the brink of bankruptcy (and everyone being asked to “tighten their belt”) it stands to reason that every budgeter re-examine their priorities. Mayor Taveras’ School Department will close the Messer School while taxpayers invest nearly $20 million in police … Continue reading
Posted in prison economics
Tagged ACI, Angel Taveras, city council, city councilmen, Elementary school, investment, judiciary, Law, Law Enforcement, million dollar neighborhoods, neighborhood, police, Prison, providence, report, RIDOC, state legislature, United States, voting bloc, west end
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SCOTUS: Drug War Finally Kills the American Revolution
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally cast down the 4th Amendment and harkened back to the police powers of 1772. In last week’s Kentucky v King ruling, an 8-1 Court decided that it was okay to break in a door … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Drug Policy
Tagged Alito, Cannabis, Circuit Court, Criminal justice, Dissent, Drug Policy Alliance, drug war, Exigent circumstance in United States law, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Ginsberg, Human Rights and Liberties, Kentucky Supreme Court, Kentucky v King, Prison-Industrial Complex, SCOTUS, Search warrant, United States, United States Constitution, United States Supreme Court
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Unshackled Pregnancies: Idaho, Nevada, Rhode Island…
UPDATE: By a vote of 48-16, the Rhode Island House of Representatives passed H 5257, echoing passage of the same bill by the Senate several weeks ago. The bill should end up on Governor Lincoln Chaffee’s desk within a few … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Prison Conditions, Prisoner Health
Tagged ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Brian Sandoval, California, Crime and Justice, Criminal justice, Direct Action for Rights and Equality, Health, Human rights, Idaho, legislation, Lincoln Chafee, Nevada, pregnant prisoners, Prison, Prison-Industrial Complex, Rhode Island, Tina Reynolds, United States, unshackling, women
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Harlem Riverside Church hosts discussion on “The New Jim Crow”
In a sign that one prominent faith organization is confronting the Incarceration Nation dilemma, Harlem Riverside Church will be hosting a roundtable with Michelle Alexander, Tina Reynolds (Women on the Rise Telling HerStory, and FIPCM Steering Committee member), and others. … Continue reading
Posted in Actions
Tagged civil rights, Drug Policy Alliance, Fortune Society, Harlem, Jim Crow, Jim Crow laws, Michelle Alexander, Prison-Industrial Complex, Riverside Church, SUSAN ROSENBERG, The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Tina Reynolds, United States, women on the rise telling herstory
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Buddy Cianci & Chris Linder: The Mayor Who Couldn’t be Ousted & The Mayor Who Is Barred From Serving
Around the nation, people know Providence as the city with the mayor who went to prison. Most don’t know about Pawnee, Oklahoma, where a former prisoner has been elected mayor. Twelve years ago, Chris Linder was involved in the rough and … Continue reading
National Prison Industry Divestment Campaign
From Causa Justa :: Just Cause, in California- “Today we stand in solidarity with community and labor groups that are taking to the streets to protest the private prison industry’s business model of pushing for harsher immigrant incarceration policies. … Continue reading
Posted in prison economics
Tagged boycott, Causa Justa, Corrections Corporation of America, divestment, Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, GEO Group, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Halliburton, Just Cause, Pershing Square Capital Management, Prison, Private Corrections Institute, Private prison, United States, Wellington Management Company, Wells Fargo
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Dear Momma
Dear Mom, Thank you for serving your time as the mother of an incarcerated child. Nearly 2 million moms today wondered if they would get a phone call from their baby locked away in a penitentiary, whether the phones would … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged education, Mothers day, penetentiary, phone, Prison, reentry, reintegration, visits
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Petition Oprah: Make “The New Jim Crow” your Book of the Month!
“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Color-Blindness” is the most important book affecting Black America since Alex Haley wrote “Roots.” The American Prison Industrial Complex, which would make the Ku Klux Klan blush, is not just … Continue reading
How I Expect California to NOT Release Prisoners… If We Let Them
By now, every activist is aware that the US Supreme Court “ordered California to reduce its prison population to 137.5%of design capacity within two years. Finding that the prison population would have to be reduced if capacity could not be … Continue reading →