Prisons
Is slavery back in Alabama?
December 20, 2023For private businesses, prison labor is like a pot of gold. No strikes. No union organizing. No health benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers’ compensation to pay.
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In prisons across America, our people suffer in hot concrete tombs
July 25, 2023At Angola Prison in Louisiana an inmate describes his torment in an airless 100 degree tomb.
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Sacrifices for capital: The millions who vanish into the abyss of mass incarceration
May 8, 2023New book shows how the disappearance of millions of people deemed obstacles to capital accumulation enables the intensification of exploitation.
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‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’: Human connection a shield against fascism
April 10, 2023PASADENA, Calif. — Thrust together at an Argentine federal correctional complex, the notorious Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, two men of polar opposite persuasions occupy a common claustrophobic cell. The time is the Dirty War period...
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Poor People’s Campaign: West Virginia prisoner deaths the ‘tip of the spear’
February 28, 2023Unexplained deaths in the state’s jails are only a tiny part of an enormous injustice in America.
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