Mass incarceration
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Militant Journalism
Tennessee jail profits from incarcerating kids, deadline for settlement approaches
The $11 million class-action settlement stems from a 2017 lawsuit that was leveled against Rutherford County after a 2016 incident…
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Militant Journalism
Solidarity rally supports striking prisoners in Louisiana
Conditions inside David Wade Correctional Center are vile; inmates are regularly subjected to life-threatening levels of high heat and black…
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‘Hunt’s Forgotten’ prisoners launch hunger strike at David Wade Correctional Center
Photo: The first full paragraph of a hand-written letter announcing the hunger strike at David Wade Correctional Center. To show…
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Struggle against cops & prisons shake up Pittsburgh politics
In Pittsburgh, the movement for Black lives has continued to upend the local political establishment. Bill Peduto, who had appeared…
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Analysis
Supreme Court refuses to free prisoners convicted by Jim Crow-style juries
The Supreme Court ruling allows the mountain of jury verdicts produced under these Jim Crow laws to stand.
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Militant Journalism
Defying local government’s threats, Chester County rallies against cash bail
“End cash bail! The whole damn system is guilty as hell!” echoed from Ash Park in Coatesville, Pa., on April…
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Activists protest phosphate mining and treatment of jail inmates near Piney Point disaster in Manatee
On Tuesday, activists in Manatee County gathered at the intersection of Moccasin Wallow Road and US 41 to demand the…
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Coatesville, PA: City government forced to abandon attempt to shut down rally vs. cash bail
In a blatantly illegal attempt to suppress Constitutionally protected political speech, the City Manager of Coatesville, PA tried to stop…
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Haywood County, North Carolina car protest: ‘Fund services, not jails’
In North Carolina’s Haywood County a car protest was organized on Feb. 1 by the Party for Socialism and Liberation…
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Analysis
$3 billion to spare? Alabama’s governor spends on prisons
Alabama is making one of the largest public expenditures in the state’s history—on building new prisons. Governor Ivey should put…
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