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Publication • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Media
Talking Human Rights in the United States - A Communications Toolkit, Opportunity Agenda, 2009 Building the National Will to Expand Opportunity in America Talking Human Rights in the United States A Communications Toolkit Tips, tools, and techniques for building public support to uphold human rights at home. About The Opportunity …
Publication • August 23, 2016
Something Inside So Strong, USHRN, 2003 Labi Siffre, Something Inside So Strong This report is distributed by the U.S. Human Rights Network. To order additional copies or to download the report, visit the network website at: www.ushrnetwork.org SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG A R E S O U R C E …
Publication • August 12, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Prison Reform
The Trump Memos - ACLU’s Constitutional Analysis of the Public Statements and Policy Proposals of Donald Trump, ACLU, 2016 THE TRUMP MEMOS The ACLU’s Constitutional Analysis of the Public Statements and Policy Proposals of Donald Trump CONTENTS Trump on Immigration...........................................................................................................3 Trump on Surveillance of Muslims and the Creation of a …
Report Says Lawmakers Should Choose Alternatives to Incarceration by Joe Watson A new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) argues that U.S. lawmakers and "tough-on-crime" advocates have relied on incarceration as a default approach to criminal justice for far too long, not only costing billions of taxpayer dollars and endless …
Article • August 10, 2016
New Hamilton Study Report Details Benefits of Reduced Incarceration by Derek Gilna The Hamilton Project, a non-partisan organization based in California that studies the relationship of incarceration to crime rates and its broad impacts on society, has published a new study that puts forward several new theories on how to …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Prison Reform
American Bar Association Wants Public to Have Voice in Prison Rules and Regulations by Joe Watson The American Bar Association (ABA), based in Washington, D.C., passed a resolution in February 2014 urging state governments to require public comment before corrections departments institute rules and regulations affecting prisoners and their families. …
Article • August 10, 2016
Human Rights Watch Questioned Over Appointees and Views by Greg Dober A letter signed by two Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, a former UN Assistant Secretary and over 100 other rights advocates and scholars request that the organization “institute immediate, concrete measures to strongly assert HRW’s [Human Rights Watch] independence.”   In …
Publication • August 10, 2016
Children Facing Life Without Possibility of Release in USA, Amnesty International, 2011 ‘This is where i’m going To be when i die’ ChIldReN fACINg lIfe IMpRIsoNMeNt wIthout the possIbIlIty of ReleAse IN the usA amnesty international is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in …
Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, Brennan Center for Justice, 2015 SOLUTIONS: AMERICAN LEADERS SPEAK OUT ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE Edited by Inimai Chettiar and Michael Waldman at New York University School of Law Foreword by President William J. Clinton Authors Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Cory Booker Chris Christie …
German Prisoners Form Union, Seek Minimum Wage and Pension by Joe Watson A group of prisoners in Germany has accomplished what American prisoners have long been prohibited from doing: They formed a labor union for incarcerated workers, to advocate for minimum wage pay so they can earn enough for a …
Criminal Defendants Shortchanged by Justice System that Favors Prosecutors by Derek Gilna Since the landmark Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963, criminal defendants who face incarceration have been guaranteed representation by an attorney if they cannot afford one. Gideon spurred most states and the federal government to …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Prison Conferences to be Held in Ohio, California by A conference described as “a Midwest convergence in support of prisoners’ struggles” is scheduled to be held in Columbus, Ohio from August 26-29. Titled “Bend the Bars 2016,” the event will consist of a series of workshops and discussions on issues …
Dallas Conviction Integrity Unit Gains National Notoriety by Matthew Clarke The word “first” was applied to Craig M. Watkins multiple times after his election to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2006. He was the county’s first black D.A., the first D.A. who had been a public defender before …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Demonstrators Protest Gates Foundation’s $2.2 Million Investment in GEO Group by Joe Watson About two dozen immigrants’ rights advocates picketed outside the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in …
Formerly Incarcerated Moms Fight for Reforms to Save Families by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Yes! Magazine Diana waited at the bus stop for her children to arrive from school one afternoon 20 years ago. She had planned a party to celebrate her daughter’s sixth birthday. The party, however, never happened. …
Incarceration, Justice and the Planet: How the Fight Against Toxic Prisons May Shape the Future of Environmentalism by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisons inspire little in terms of natural wonder. It might be a weed rises through a crack and blooms for a moment. It might be a prisoner notices. But prisoners, …
Exonerees Fulfill Dreams, Help Other Prisoners Overcome Wrongful Convictions by David Reutter by David Reutter and Joe Watson Former Louisiana death row prisoner John Thompson has spearheaded an organization that aims to help the wrongfully convicted and former prisoners successfully rebuild their lives. Thompson was sentenced to death for the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
A Prison Telecom in Sheep’s Clothing by Carrie Wilkinson On April 6, 2016, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai conducted a Field Hearing in Columbia, South Carolina on the subject of contraband cell phones in prisons and jails. The panel did not address questions submitted prior to the hearing by the Human …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Commits Suicide by Anti-death penalty advocate Darryl Hunt, who was wrongfully convicted and served almost 20 years in North Carolina prisons before being exonerated in 2004, was found dead on March 13, 2016 in a car near the Wake Forest University campus. Police officials revealed that …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Criminologist Jonathan Simon refers to prisons as human toxic waste dumps where the ruling class dumps its human waste: out of sight and out of mind. Sadly, toxic waste is not just a literary analogy when discussing American prisons and jails. As PLN has …
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