Brother J of The X Clan returns with a powerful message about the trials of incarceration and the prison industrial complex. Featuring Christian Scott on trumpet. From the latest album “Return From Mecca“. Directed by Wraithe for Kinetik Cinematix. 2008
Tag Archives: Crime and Justice
source url: http://4strugglemag.org/2013/05/02/prison-life-drugs-drinking-a-revolutionary-and-political-prisoner-perspective/ By JAAN LAAMAN Rashid Johnson’s foregoing article on his traumatic and dangerous experience with accidentally getting high, then trying to hurt himself, all while being in the control of prison authorities, is a cautionary tale indeed. I don’t know Brother Rashid personally, but his long time work with 4sm and his leadership in the New African […]
by Ronald Thomas I am a 28-year-old Black man from Troy, Alabama, locked down at Holman Maximum Security Prison in Atmore, Alabama. While in segregation (lock up), a brotha gave me a stack of Bay View newspapers. I was not much of a reader – especially not Black liberation material – but now I am. […]
by Carl S. Harrison Have you ever heard of a prisoner with life insurance or health care? No. This is because every prison sentence could very well end up in death to the inmate. In January, Human Rights Watch reported that from 2007 to 2010 the number of prisoners in the U.S. over age […]
source url: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/onthequestionofintegratedcelling/ Introduction [from Prison Focus]: We’re all aware of the 2005 court decision ordering the C.D.C. to begin implementing integrated celling of the prison’s multi-ethnic population. What may not be known to many is that this policy has already been initiated. For the most part the immediate response has essentially been that […]
source url: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/snapshot-of-genocide/ An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73: The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification It suffices, to discern the extrapenological functions served by the outsized extension of the US carceral apparatus even as crime plummeted for over a decade, to […]
SHUs don’t work. Rates of gang activity, yard violence, illegal drug sales and assaults on staff are increasing in California, while decreasing in other states. Maryland has recently closed its SHU. 2. SHUs add violence to the prison system. The psychologically brutal and degrading conditions of long term SHU confinement encourages violence […]
On Sunday, April 14th, “News Munchies” with Ted Corless began a two part series examining and debating the Death Penalty. Ted Corless “takes a proactive approach to polarizing problems to find practical solutions.” The “News Munchies” approach is refreshing and sorely needed today. On 04-14-13, Ted Corless interviewed Bill Pelke of “The Journey of Hope” and Mark […]
Deutsche Übersetzung… To my brethern & sistas on the ‘Row It has been barely a week since I departed Death Row, yet I cannot help but look back, for many of you are in my heart. I may no longer be on Death Row, but because of you Death Row is still with me. How could […]
This is an article posted on the Website of D.R.I.V.E. (Death Row Inner Communalist Vanguard-Engagement), an organization in solidarity with those on death row in Texas. Inmates in other States also show their solidarity with those on DR in Texas. Here is an article by Coyote, who is incarcerated in Nevada. He wrote this […]
