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 […]
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“Control units may vary from prison to prison but they can be generally characterized as: Permanently designated prisons or cells in prisons that lock prisoners up in solitary or small group confinement for 22 or more hours a day with no congregate dining, exercise or other services, and virtually no programs for prisoners. […]
I ask that every poor person incarcerated study slavery in all its forms, because the very practice of mass incarceration is slavery.
Who were the Attica Brothers? Why did they seize control of the prison? What makes Attica important to the anti-prison movement today? Featuring historical materials from the Freedom Archives. Voices include: Frank ‘Big Black‘ Smith, Attica Brother and prison activist L.D. Barkley, Attica Brother killed during the re-taking of the prison Elizabeth Fink, attorney for […]
by the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice Washington, D.C. – On Dec. 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a critical step toward lowering the cost of calls made from prisons, issuing a further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The Campaign for Prison Phone Justice applauds the FCC’s action to issue this NPRM, which marks […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) It’s like something ripped right out of a dystopian futuristic sci-fi novel: A U.S. patent has been uncovered that describes electronic handcuffs capable of delivering torturous electroshocks, “gas injections” and injectable “chemical restraints” […]
Wednesday, 15 August 2012 00:00 By Yana Kunichoff and Jesse Menendez, Truthout and Vocalo http://truth-out.org/news/item/10898-fight-over-closing-of-illinois-supermax-ends-14-years-of-prisoners-silence-in-solitary-confinement Tamms Correctional Center on 200 Supermax Road, near the southern tip of Southern Illinois, may be as far from the hustling and bustling city of Chicago, with its constant city throb of noise, as you can get. And it’s likely […]
August 6, 2012 http://solitarywatch.com/2012/08/06/one-year-after-historic-hunger-strike-isolated-ca-inmates-report-little-change/ by Sal Rodriguez At this time one year ago, a three week hunger strike across California prisons had been concluded, and the California Assembly had begun planning a hearing on the use of solitary confinement in California’s prisons. The conditions of the California Security Housing Units, where over 3,000 inmates are […]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101936395/Who-Are-New-Afrikan-Political-Prisoners-and-Prisoners-of-War Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War are not in prison for committing social”crimes”, nor are they criminals. Different PP/POWs participated in progressive and revolutionary movements in varying levels. Some in educational and community organizing, others in clandestine armed and offensive people’s armies. All are as a result of conscious political action, for building resistance, […]
Gabriel Gonzalez From The Burning Spear issue Aug 2006 Source: http://www.apspuhuru.org Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you for… I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid […]
