http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/04/restricting_inmates_mail_uncon.html By The Associated Press on April 25, 2013 at 9:25 PM, updated April 25, 2013 at 9:35 PM PORTLAND — A federal judge in Oregon has determined limiting inmates’ mail to only postcards is unconstitutional, throwing into question the legality of a practice used for years in jails across the country. For two years, […]
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by Mutope Duguma, Sitawa N. Jamaa, Abdul O. Shakur and Sondai K. Dumisani Gov. Brown has declared that the prison crisis that allowed prisoners to die is over and that prisoners are receiving good care. His words, not ours. It is obvious that the governor has not produced any data that supports his claim. Furthermore, the governor is deliberately […]
My name is Robert H. King. I was released on February 8, 2001 after spending 31 years in prison – 29 of them in solitary confinement at the infamous Louisiana State Prison also known as ‘Angola‘. Confined there with me were Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, the other two friends who make up ‘the Angola […]
The report warned that California’s prison suicide-watch practices encouraged inmate deaths. Gov. Brown has said the state’s prison care crisis is over. By Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ff-prisons-20130228,0,5472743.story?track=rss SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has pointed to reams of documents to make the case in court and on the stump that California’s prison crisis […]
by Alfred Sandoval Since the last hunger strike, the administration via the “Office of Corruptional Security” has instituted documented military torture tactics here at Pelican Bay State Prison in order to create hostile living conditions and attempt to turn prisoners on each other. But many of us have seen these tactics before, so we know […]
