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34 votes
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Seventy-five things white people can do for racial justice
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Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence
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Ameelio, a startup backed by the Mozilla's 'Fix the Internet', aims to provide free video calls and messaging to prisoners in the US where video calls can cost as much as $25 for 15min
11 votes -
In four US state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for coronavirus -- 96% without symptoms
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Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice
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How Norway made a more humane prison
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Rather than punishing prisoners, Finland's open prisons focus on rehabilitation and preparation for a smooth reentry into society
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Switzerland votes to ban homophobic discrimination
10 votes -
Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
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San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to criminal justice data
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Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
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Crime and Punishment is an interesting, hard to watch, docu about the UK prison system
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole". Here's a link to the first episode:...
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole".
Here's a link to the first episode: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/crime-and-punishment/on-demand/64655-001
Crime and punishment is a documentary series that looks inside prison to tell the stories of the criminal justice system from the viewpoint of those involved.
The first episode spends some time talking about the unjust "Imprisonment for Public Protection"[1] sentences (these are no longer given by the courts but there are thousands of prisoners still imprisoned on them), how they went wrong, and the awful effect they have upon prisoners. It's a difficult watch. It shows how severely the mental health of prisoners is when they're on this type of sentence, including their serious self harm.
Episode two talks about pressure inside prisons and how that results in "riots", about how prisoners use the only power they have available to them.
I like the programme because it avoids judgmentalism. The prisoners are not reduced to the bad guys; the officers are not simplified to the good guys. You hear a little bit about some of the offences committed by the prisoners
Here's a Twitter thread from someone working in the English NHS. She works in forensic services as a psychologist. https://twitter.com/SarahE_Davidson/status/1173707912981700608
I guess Channel 4 On Demand have geo-blocking. I don't know if it's available on other services, or on torrent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment_for_public_protection
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When prosecutors bury New York Police Department officers' lies
7 votes -
Remove Richard Stallman
51 votes -
Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
13 votes -
In short-staffed jail, Jeffrey Epstein was left alone for hours, and one of the two guards didn't normally work as a correctional officer
11 votes -
California man charged with murder even though he didn’t fire a shot
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Lawyer argues that Humanists — who believe in good without a God — get short shrift in Nevada prisons
5 votes -
Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
13 votes -
In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case
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Fearing for his life: Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him
11 votes -
Fire at notorious Brooklyn federal jail as New York City enters heat wave
4 votes -
The troubling business of bounty hunting
11 votes -
How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours
12 votes -
We thought our prison strike was a success. Then came the officers in riot gear.
14 votes -
Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
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I told prison guards I have celiac disease. They fed me gluten anyway.
21 votes -
How women who’ve left Turkey are helping those left behind
8 votes -
Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind.
20 votes -
'A model of hope for the world': Twenty-five years after Rwandan Genocide, new film shows journey toward justice and healing
3 votes -
Excommunicate me from the church of social justice
18 votes -
If you're drugged and raped, the police may never know. Here's why.
6 votes -
Is trade in turmoil a change for justice? The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it?
7 votes -
What role should victim impact statements play in Canadian courts?
5 votes -
Edmund Zagorski's plea for mercy
4 votes -
South Carolina officials won’t evacuate prison ahead of Hurricane Florence
13 votes -
US inmates claim retaliation by prison officials as result of multi-state strike
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DOOM: The fake outrage
25 votes -
Major prison strike spreads across US and Canada as inmates refuse food
19 votes -
Saudi Arabia seeks its first death penalty against a female human rights activist
10 votes -
Prisoners striking in seventeen US states over prison conditions
18 votes -
US judge bars statements made by Guantánamo detainees during FBI interrogations
9 votes -
Petty charges, princely profits
5 votes -
The curfew myth
5 votes -
For two decades, defending death row inmates
5 votes -
A US jury may have sentenced a man to death because he’s gay. And the Justices don’t care.
17 votes -
Manhunt underway after notorious French gangster Rédoine Faïd breaks free from jail in dramatic helicopter escape
8 votes -
Refusing breath sample after fatal crash is as serious as impaired driving causing death: SCC
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Is it constitutional to send someone back to prison for relapsing?
10 votes