Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety –An interview with author and former prisoner Shawn Griffith By Angola 3 News If given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of […]
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by Kenny Zulu Whitmore Revolutionary greetings, my people. Prison is a lonely, dark, cruel reality where you immediately become trapped in a time warp on one of the many modern day plantations that have sprung up like trees across America. Rape in prison is a part of the fabric as is rotten, evil, racist corrections […]
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1920401095001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAADrS7PYE~,R_zvWDQBHENLqhohZ5n_Gn_kvstGvCK5&bctid=2219231326001 A video was leaked from a prison in Maine. It is more than a little disturbing. I’ll warn you now that it this video that I’m passing on to you contains both violence and profanity. The video is seventeen and a half minutes long and you can view it here. This summary that I’ll […]
by Kíjana Tashiri Askari, Baridi Yero and Yafeu Iyapo “To enable the people of the community to have an intelligent or informed opinion about matters of importance, the principal role of leaders is to study and to institute studies upon the basis of which plans are developed.” – from “The Destruction of Black Civilization,” Page 357, by Chancellor Williams Like […]
“The torture technicians who developed the paradigm used in (prisons’) ‘control units’ realised that they not only had to separate those with leadership qualities, but also break those individuals’ minds and bodies and keep them separated until they are dead.” – Russell “Maroon” Shoats
(Herman Wallace, left, with Albert Woodfox, right.) We are reprinting in full, two recent articles by Katti Gray, writing for The Root. Part one, entitled “Freedom After 40 Years in Solitary?,” focuses mostly on the pending decision from US District Court Judge James A. Brady, who in 2008 ruled to overturn his conviction. That ruling […]
by Alan Goodman | revcom.us I know you’re workin’ for the CIA / They wouldn’t have you in the Ma-fi-a… ” In 1975, the band War had a hit single with that line. It pretty much summed up what anyone who claimed to have any consciousness, and anyone who had a conscience, had to […]
Source: http://sfbayview.com/ by Mumia Abu-Jamal You may think that you know something about solitary, but you don’t. You may have a loved one in prison who has experienced it and told you about it. But still I say, you don’t know it. You know the word; but between word and the reality, a world exists. […]
