Tag Archives: #PrisonIndustrialComplex

Press Release: EVENTS 10:00 a.m. TODAY – 1/8/19 – addressing @FL_Corrections’ engineered recidivism

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Susan Chandler

Engineering recidivism – setting inmates up to fail upon reentry to their communities – is a conspiratorial Color of Law activity. Reoffending benefits no one except those who have invested in prison vendors or private prisons, as well as the … Continue reading →

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.@GovernorVA: Don’t transfer activist inmate Kevin #Rashid Johnson again

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Susan Chandler

Rashid Threatened with Transfer — Hearing on Sept 10th — BLOCK THE PHONES! We have learned that the Virginia Department of Corrections is planning to hold a hearing Monday September 10th, to have Rashid transferred out of state yet again. … Continue reading →

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Feds finally show up at #LoveFL’s Lowell Correctional Institution. It’s already too late … will it also be too little? #DeadInmates

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Susan Chandler

Feds to probe abuse allegations at Florida women’s prison | Miami Herald The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into sexual misconduct by correctional officers as well as other abuses against women at Lowell Correctional … Continue reading →

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Stop #PrisonIndustrialComplex from morphing into #TreatmentIndustrialComplex (video)

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Susan Chandler

Society’s Parasite: A Look Inside The Treatment Industrial Complex or “TIC” • BRAVE NEW FILMS Published on Oct 11, 2016 For-Profit Prisons have ruined lives, wasted millions in tax dollars, and haven’t made us any safer. But it doesn’t end … Continue reading →

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PEACEFULLY MARCHING PRISONERS AT MICHIGAN’S KINROSS TEARGASSED, ZIP-TIED, LEFT OUT IN RAIN

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Susan Chandler

Source: PEACEFULLY MARCHING PRISONERS AT MICHIGAN’S KINROSS TEARGASSED, ZIP-TIED, LEFT OUT IN RAIN OCTOBER 9, 2016 Contact: Duncan Tarr, 313-409-8615, mailto:miprisonabolition@gmail.com KINCHELOE, MI – More than two weeks after prisoners at Kinross Correctional Facility participated in a nationwide prison workers’ … Continue reading →

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Who lives, who dies, who tells your story – #OscarGiles

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Susan Chandler

Update 5/1/17: Once again, I noticed “hits” on Oscar Giles on my blog, and checked the Florida Department of Corrections website to see if he is okay. He’s not. Oscar died on February 2nd, a little over a month past … Continue reading →

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What’s Really Going on Under the Hood of the Marijuana Movement: Big Marijuana, Gmos, and Hemp | The Last American Vagabond

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Susan Chandler

We can make legally beer and wine at home for personal consumption in most states (despite how addictive alcohol is), but we can’t – since 1938 – grow a medicinal herb anywhere in US without fear of federal prosecution. We … Continue reading →

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The Corrections Corporation of America, by the Numbers

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Susan Chandler

Originally posted on Prison Industry Divestment Movement:
Where the pioneering private prison company operates, who owns it, and who’s taking it to court. Via MOTHER JONES JULY/AUGUST 2016 ISSUE Read Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer’s firsthand account of his four months…

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There’s BIG money in misery and oppression … GEO Group

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Susan Chandler

GEO Group tells shareholders that everything is fine in Karnes family detention center August 5, 2015 Whistleblower and former GEO employee paints a different picture of “torture” inside and says “this really is a prison” (AUSTIN, Texas) — Tuesday for-profit … Continue reading →

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10/22/1991: Punishing poverty; two scathing Bernie Sanders Senate Floor minutes

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Bernie Sanders on Crime, Punishment and Poverty Catholics4Bernie Published on Jul 8, 2015 Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delivers a fiery speech on the issue of crime and the root of the problem: poverty. Urges an end to harsh retributive policies … Continue reading →

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