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Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Illinois Prison Phone Rates are Lowest Following Grassroots Activism by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar, Truthout “There were a lot of times my sons tried calling me,” recalled Annette Taylor, who regularly receives calls from her two sons in prison, “but there was no money on the account.” Those were some …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
New Mexico Riot Raises Questions About Private Prison Company’s Competence by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The police department in Clayton, New Mexico and the state police are investigating a September 23, 2017 incident at the Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility (NENMCF), which grew into the state’s most …
Publication • 2019
Filed under: Protests
Suffragist Prisoners and the Importance of Protecting Prisoner Protests, 2019 Akron Law Review Volume 53 Issue 2 Nineteenth Amendment Issue Article 1 2019 Suffragist Prisoners and the Importance of Protecting Prisoner Protests Nicole B. Godfrey Follow this and additional works at: https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/akronlawreview Q Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Protests, Food
County Detainees Protest Food Served at New Hampshire Jail by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In mid-2018, prisoners at the Bristol County House of Correction (HOC) in Massachusetts participated in a hunger strike to protest inadequate food and medical care. Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson said those were the …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Protesters Rally Against Private Prison Contractor GEO Group by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Activists protesting President Trump’s immigration policies are also rallying against a company that profits from immigrant detention: The GEO Group. The activists have been protesting at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities as well …
New Rule Sparks Uprising at California Sex Offender Civil Commitment Facility by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 14, 2018, about 400 to 500 civilly committed sex offender “patients” met in the common area of California’s Coalinga State Hospital to protest a stringent new rule that went into effect …
Protesters Blockade CoreCivic Headquarters in Nashville; 19 Arrests by As dawn broke on August 6, 2018, the light shone on a group of about two dozen protesters who had blockaded the main entrance to the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the nation’s largest for-profit prison …
Article • June 16, 2018
Florida Prisoners 'Laydown' in Non-Violent Protests by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In early 2018, Florida prisoners began a "laydown," a non-violent protest about prison conditions and unpaid "slave labor." The laydowns are to last as long as necessary to get the point across. Supported by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee ("IWOC"), the …
Protest Results in Three Arrests at CoreCivic’s Annual Shareholders Meeting by On May 10, 2018, drumbeats echoed and faux “blood” flowed through the parking lot at the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), as activists staged dramatic street theater to represent the sorrow, suffering and deaths …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Protests
California: Protest Over Bay Area Jail Conditions by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Promising to “continue peaceful protest to end tortuous practices of solitary confinement,” Prisoners United, a coalition of prisoners in California’s Bay Area jails backed by civil rights groups, described the purpose of their complaints in an open …
Publication • January 1, 2018
Locked Up-Shut Up-Why Speech in Prison Matters, St Johns Law Review, 2018 St. John's Law Review Volume 92 Number 1 Volume 92, Spring 2018, Number 1 Article 2 September 2018 Locked Up, Shut Up: Why Speech in Prison Matters Evan Bianchi David Shapiro Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/lawreview …
ICE Detainee Sent to Solitary Confinement for Encouraging Protest of “Voluntary” Low-Wage Labor by Spencer Woodman by Spencer Woodman, reprinted with permission from The Intercept In June, officials at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Georgia sentenced an immigrant detainee to a month in solitary …
World Medical Association Declaration – WMA Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes, 2017 WMA DECLARATION OF MALTA ON HUNGER STRIKERS Adopted by the 43rd World Medical Assembly, St. Julians, Malta, November 1991 and editorially revised by the 44th World Medical Assembly, Marbella, Spain, September 1992 and revised by the 57th …
Article • August 31, 2017
Filed under: Protests
Supreme Court Holds Demonstrators May Be Arrested for Trespassing Jail Grounds by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 14, 1966, the Supreme Court of the United States held that demonstrators may be arrested for protesting on jail property. A group of about 200 students were protesting on a nonpublic …
Garcia v. Bloomberg, NY, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, First Amendment Assembly Fair Warning Requirement, 2017 No. In the Supreme Court of the United States KARINA GARCIA, YARI OSORIO, BENJAMIN BECKER, CASSANDRA REGAN, YAREIDIS PEREZ, STEPHANIE JEAN UMOH, TYLER SOVA, MICHAEL CRICKMORE, AND BROOKE FEINSTEIN, Petitioners, v. MICHAEL R. …
Publication • 2017
Filed under: Protests
Punished Protestors - Conditions in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, 2017 . LOYOLA UNIVERSITY I NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES Punished Protesters: Conditions in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison (Promise of Justice Initiative 2017) Andrea Armstrong, Law Visiting Committee Distinguished Professor of Law & Erica …
Punished Protestors: Conditions in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, Erica Navalance and Andrea Armstrong, The Promise of Justice Initiative, 2017 PUNISHED PROTESTERS in Baton Rouge Conditions in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison The Prom of Justice Initiative the PROMISE of JUSTICE INITIATIVE the Promise of Justice the PROMISE PUNISHED PROTESTERS: …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Colorado: Demonstrators Clash with Police over Seizure of Jury Nullification Pamphlets by Joe Watson Occupy Denver and other local activists have been engaged in a long-term campaign of jury nullification education outside Denver’s Second Judicial District courthouse. The activists’ attempts to exercise their First Amendment rights have resulted in repeated …
2017 Has Already Seen Several Prison Rebellions by Brian Sonenstein Although the nationwide prison strike has fallen from headlines in recent months, incarcerated individuals continue to resist abuse and mistreatment while supporters on the outside rally to their defense. Prisoners in Delaware made international headlines when they took hostages and held Building C at the Vaughn …
A Vision for Black Lives - Policy, Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice, M4BL, 2016 P OLIC Y. M 4 BL .ORG Black humanity and dignity requires Black political will and power. Despite constant exploitation and perpetual oppression, Black people have bravely and brilliantly been the driving force pushing …
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