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With Over 115,000 Confirmed Cases, Incarcerated People Are Challenging Deadly Pandemic Conditions in Prisons
By Victoria LawTruthoutSeptember 6th, 2020 By Victoria Law, Truthout Published September 6, 2020 Share Share via Email Reading List Education…
Inside the dark, booming business of coerced immigrant detainee labor— This is Hell Podcast
This is HellJune 2nd, 2018 In these private detention centers across the country, people who have been detained are saying…
Arrest, Release, Repeat: New Report Exposes Vicious Cycle of Imprisonment
By Victoria LawTruthoutAugust 27th, 2019 Robert McCoy has a 78-page rap sheet that includes 80 arrests and five prison sentences.…
RIP Marilyn Buck: Activist, Poet, Writer, Translator, Teacher, Former Political Prisoner, and Inspiration to Many
By Victoria Law In May, I wrote a short blog post about the influence Marilyn Buck had on my early…
Strike Zone: Hungering for Justice in the Crime-and-Punishment System
By Victoria Law “This is what democracy looks like!” These days, when you hear those words at a protest, whether…
Tens of Thousands of California Prisoners Launch Mass Hunger Strike
By Victoria LawThe NationJuly 10th, 2013 On Monday, July 8, prisoners at the Security Housing Unit (SHU) in California’s Pelican…
well, duh–incarcerated women’s health care in urgent need of improvement
Women’s health in prison: urgent need for improvement in gender equity and social justice By World Health OrganizationBrenda J van…
Warrior-Poet Marilyn Buck : No Wall Too Tall
I first started corresponding with Marilyn Buck in late 1995/early 1996. I was a first-year college student trying to find…
Tell BOP to Stop (further) Isolating People in Experimental Prisons!
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is proposing further isolating people in Communications Management Units (more details below). There’s a…