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Some Reflections on Prison Labor
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: A popular notion in some progressive circles holds that US prisons are a chain of sweatshops and plantations where hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people labor under excruciating conditions to generate profits for ...
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Morbid Symptoms, Part II: Attack on Rikers Island
This is the second of six reviews chronicling the pseudonymous Fred S. Kreiderโs Rikers Island Series, a horror franchise set on present-day Rikers Island. In the first installment we met narrator Nicholas Billings, a rookie guard ...
Morbid Symptoms, Part I: Storm on Rikers Island
โI feel a sickness deep in my stomach every time the buildingโs alarm goes off,โ confesses rookie jail guard Nicholas Billings. โItโs always the same feeling. I donโt care what anyone says, how tough they think ...
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Google User Reviews of US Jails and Prisons
People across the US are taking to Google user reviews with grievances about the jails and prisons where they and their loved ones are held.
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Pennsylvania Sheriff Warns: Accept No Imitation
Earlier this month a mysterious call came through to Dr. Mark Crucianiโs office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The caller identified himself as a sheriffโs deputy from Lackawanna County and informed Cruciani that he had missed a court ...
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Scottsboro
Weโre driving down Route 72 Saturday morning from Huntsville to Scottsboro, a small blue collar city of fourteen thousand that the Tennessee wraps around like a fat brown snake before uncoiling down river. Scottsboro, that Alabama ...
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The Secret Lives of Rikers Island Jail Guards
โCorrections should rehabilitate the inmates,โ writes C. Renรฉ West in Caught in the Struggle, โbut who has the time. The officers are so busy trying to sift through all the confusion in the parking lots, locker ...
Cocaine, Kanye West and Shitty Jobs
by Zhandarka Kurtiย Around this time last year, I met Mike, a black man in his mid 40s, in the offices of a non-profit organization working with formerly incarcerated people. Its offices are located in a ...
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Preach deliverance to the captives
by Noel Ignatiev โThirteenth-Amendmentโ marches are planned for August 19th in various cities. They are sponsored by a list of notable figures; it would not surprise me to see Bernie Sandersโ or Elizabeth Warrenโs name among ...
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Exploited, Abused, Neglected – Mental Illness and Solitary Confinement in Texas Prisons
By Noah โComrade Kadoโ Coffin & Keith โComrade Malikโ Washington Imagine spending 23 hours each day alone in a 6×9 ft space. Crowd into it a toilet/sink combo, rusty iron set of bunk beds, and overhead ...
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