This week, the Hawaii chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department, demanding an investigation into the state’s dangerously overcrowded prisons
Ever since the American people decided last November that Donald Trump was to become the next president of the United States, the private prison industry
Amid a shameful paucity of media coverage, inmates at facilities in several states have organized work stoppages since Sept. 9—the anniversary of the 1971 Attica prison
This week, the Hawaii chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department, demanding an investigation into the state’s dangerously overcrowded prisons and jails. The complaint charges that horrific conditions at the facilities constitute a violation of the prisoners’ Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. “What you have is cells that were designed for two
Ever since the American people decided last November that Donald Trump was to become the next president of the United States, the private prison industry has been raking in higher profits. Although private prison stocks began to decrease in value after the U.S. Department of Justice announced in the summer of 2016 that it would no longer use private detention
Amid a shameful paucity of media coverage, inmates at facilities in several states have organized work stoppages since Sept. 9—the anniversary of the 1971 Attica prison uprising. Organizers say inmates in at least 29 prisons in 12 states have launched strikes, with an unprecedented more than 24,000 prisoners participating. “This is a call to end slavery,” reads the official call for the strike,
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