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Tag Archives: Human rights
65 Million “Need Not Apply” – Is it Time for Boycotts?
A report released yesterday by National Employment Law Project (NELP) confirms that many companies are instituting blanket bans on hiring people with criminal records, including those with misdemeanors. Creating what is an public safety issue and, if reforms are not … Continue reading
Posted in prison economics, Rehabilitation
Tagged ABM Industries, Ban the Box, Bank of America, Civil rights movement, Crime and Justice, criminal record, discrimination, drug war, EEOC, Employment, Formerly incarcerated, Hilda Solis, Human rights, Lincoln Chafee, litigation, Lowes, ManPower, National Employment Law Project, NELP, Peter Kilmartin, Prison-Industrial Complex, Rhode Island, Title VII, United States, United States Secretary of Labor
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Georgia D.O.C. Wages Retaliation Campaign In Wake of 2010 Strike
Correspondence between Atlanta Attorney Mario Williams of Williams Oinonen LLC, (representing several brutalized inmates) and the Georgia Department of Corrections, along with documents from Open Records Requests, reveal disturbing patterns and unanswered questions as to the DOC’s actions and … Continue reading
Posted in Prison Conditions
Tagged Beatings, Black Agenda Report, Brutality, Civil rights movement, Corrections officer, Department of Corrections, Georgia Department of Corrections, Health, Human rights, Justice for Miguel, Miguel Jackson, Prison, Prison-Industrial Complex, The Ordinary People Society, TOPS
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SUSAN ROSENBERG’S 16 YEARS AS A POLITICAL PRISONER COME TO LIGHT IN NEW MEMOIR
An AMERICAN RADICAL: Political Prisoner in My Own Country to be published March 1, 2011 It didn’t take me long to get to know Susan. We could do the convict’s shorthand considering we both spent our most formative years in … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Political Prisoners
Tagged Activism, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Christian Parenti, City University of New York, cost of prisons, Crime and Justice, Eleanor Roosevelt, Formerly incarcerated, Human rights, Political prisoner, Prison-Industrial Complex, SUSAN ROSENBERG, United Parcel Service, United States
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Prison Labor Unions in America: What North Carolina Taught Us.
With the development of the Georgia prisoners’ labor strike, there is renewed interest in the labor movement behind the walls of prison and the rights of the incarcerated to organize. A jailhouse lawyer like me always wants to know the … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Courts, Prison Conditions, prison economics
Tagged Activism, Black Panther, Donald Tibbs, Elaine Brown, From Black Power to Prison Power, Georgia Department of Corrections, Huey P. Newton, Human rights, J. Edgar Hoover, Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union Inc., Prison, Prison-Industrial Complex, United States Supreme Court
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Death Threats On Jailhouse Lawyer in PA. Take Action!
The Human Rights Coalition-Fed Up! has received reports that Andre Jacobs, a Pennsylvania state prisoner in solitary confinement, has been physically abused, issued death threats, denied medical treatment, called racial slurs, and had his legal property illegally withheld and confiscated … Continue reading
Sign the Petition of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoners
A Moment for Movement-Building: Statement of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoner Strike Sign the Petition Now! On December 9, 2010, thousands of prisoners in at least six Georgia state prisons initiated the largest prisoner strike in U.S. history, uniting across racial … Continue reading
Looking For a Unified Labor Movement? Go to Georgia’s Prisons.
On December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, and stopped all other activities to remain in their cells in a peaceful, one-day protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike is likely the biggest prisoner protest … Continue reading
The American Prisoner and the International Human Rights Day Dilemma
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) will call attention to International Human Rights Day, by sending cards to hundreds of prisoners at the Adult Correctional Institutions and around the country. On Thursday, December 2nd, the Behind the Walls Prison … Continue reading
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Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People’s Movement Arises!
Alabama represents the answer to a clarion call. This is a call that speaks to us in our own voice; clear, loud and urgent. A voice that speaks to our identity and emanates from the soul, ringing true both in … Continue reading →