suede denim privatized secret police
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
So gross!!
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/13/emails-reveal-mi-prisoners-assaulted-by-food-service-contractors-served-maggot-laden-food/
― 龜, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, February 24, 2014 9:40 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
A tough cell: US to defend solitary confinement use before UN
On Nov. 12 and 13, the practice of holding incarcerated people in prolonged isolation will come under international scrutiny when the U.S. government goes before the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva, part of a periodic review to assess the country’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture and the first U.S. review under Barack Obama’s administration.This year the 10-person U.N. committee has repeated its concerns about imposing prolonged isolation on prisoners. In a list of issues to be addressed with the U.S. — including the use of secret detention facilities, Guantánamo Bay and the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” — the committee has asked the government to “describe steps taken to improve the extremely harsh regime imposed on detainees in ‘Supermax security prisons,’ in particular the practice of prolonged isolation.”
This year the 10-person U.N. committee has repeated its concerns about imposing prolonged isolation on prisoners. In a list of issues to be addressed with the U.S. — including the use of secret detention facilities, Guantánamo Bay and the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” — the committee has asked the government to “describe steps taken to improve the extremely harsh regime imposed on detainees in ‘Supermax security prisons,’ in particular the practice of prolonged isolation.”
― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Pa. Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Massive Juvenile Justice Bribery Scandal
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 August 2015 06:11 (eight years ago) link
2011?
― computer champion (harbl), Sunday, 30 August 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/department-justice-plans-end-private-prison
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah I bumped another thread but this seems like the better thread in which to discuss. Good news. Hope states follow suit.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqJyB2NW8AEsKf9.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
didn't know where else to post this
http://www.gq.com/story/buried-alive-solitary-confinement
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 3 March 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
this is of course an idea that seems like generations away from being seriously considered in this country, if at all, but it's something worth starting a conversation about
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18184070/maximum-prison-sentence-cap-mass-incarceration
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
i agree. there is not enough talk about penalties for violent crimes. people get offended, because there is also not enough knowledge about what a violent crime means. some of them are quite petty ime. some of them are very horrible. they are not all the same.
anyway i clicked that and read it sort of but i was imagining something like a salary cap. like each prosecutor's office must cap the number of years all people are sentenced to in a given time period. what an idea!
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
and on another note, good thread here:
Malcolm Rifkind in @FT, "Private Prisons have been a serious moral mistake". Ends with this "Incarceration should be administered by servants of the state & not by private companies in Britain or elsewhere, regardless of efficiency or cost effectiveness": https://t.co/x5ZDuTOKBh— Sanjay G Reddy (@sanjaygreddy) April 17, 2019
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
“The Special Report notes that the number of people held in solitary confinement in the United States ballooned to an estimated 300,000 people in April, as compared to an estimated 60,000 people held in solitary confinement each day prior to the outbreak.” https://t.co/JT08MY4sIp— Marking Time (@MarkingTime6) June 15, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
Really good piece.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165112/sirhan-gavin-newsom-prison-release
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 February 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/21/new-york-jail-chinatown-rikers-island
― rob, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:03 (eight months ago) link
Is it, as opponents say, an ugly symbol of mass incarceration – or, as planners believe, a sign of a city slowly but surely righting its criminal justice ills?
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quality journalism
― budo jeru, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:12 (eight months ago) link