Category Archives: UN Committee on Human Rights

Time on Ice: Florida Officials Torture Prisoners With Freezing Strip Cells

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Susan Chandler

“As Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, to understand society one need only look inside its prisons.”

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Governors: Get your Ghosts out of @FL_Corrections before they really are ghosts | #goodtrouble

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Grand Jury report rips Florida prison over deadly beatdown The autopsy said that the cartilage surrounding his windpipe was broken, all three sides of his larynx were injured and he suffered blunt-force trauma to his head, neck and torso. The … Continue reading →

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Buddy Caldwell strikes again, prevents Albert Woodfox’s release. Please sign petition.

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Court temporarily blocks release of ‘Angola 3’ inmate :: WRAL.com Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is appealing the order by U.S. District Judge James Brady, saying Woodfox is a killer who should remain locked up. The stay by the 5th … Continue reading →

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