Meme: @BearCov When the dispensary looks and operates like an Apple Store it's time to release a lot of incarcerated human beings. A lot. A lot.

The U.S. holds 25% of the world's incarcerated humans.

1/4 of all prisoners on Earth are in a cell in "The Greatest Country on Earth."

#incarceration #humanrights #prison

(PDF) Do the Conditions inside the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons Facilities Violate the Nelson Mandela Rules on detention? PDF | This article examines how the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) violates specific provisions of the United Nations Standard Minimum... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

My latest blog post, "How U.S. Federal Prisons Fail International Human Rights Standards,” jeffreyianross.com/how-u-s-fede... #corrections #FBOP #humanrights #incarceration #mandelarules #prisons tinyurl.com/3r7tcynr

Why I resigned from the UN to join the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Mondoweiss interviews former UN official Chloé Ludden about her experiences at sea during the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and why those working at international organizations, including civil servants, can no longer afford the luxury of silence.

"I decided to join the Handala after trying to move the system from the inside."

"I was contacting the deputy Secretary General to send UN observers."

"It was difficult for me to understand why there was so much lack of courage."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Water #Military #Genocide

'They Tricked Me': A Father Was Chained After He Went to ICE To Reunite With His Kids The administration has largely converted the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement into an arm of immigration enforcement, detaining children longer while helping immigration officers arrest their…

"Carlos arrived at an [ICE] office in New Mexico in December, believing he was one step closer to reuniting with his children."

"[T]hey stripped off his clothes [..] and chained him by the neck, waist, and legs."

"They tricked me."
#NewMexico #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

I represent a Palestinian woman in Israeli prison. Now I can't reach her Israel locked down its prisons at the start of the Iran war, barring almost all lawyer visits and leaving my client without a voice beyond her cell.

"In ordinary times, legal visits are essential."

"In times of crisis, they are indispensable."

"Her case is an example of the mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons that has become systematic."
#Israel #Palestine #Incarceration #Apartheid #Food #Healthcare #Surveillance #Torture

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

"In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children."

"[A]verage of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention."
#USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #DomesticViolence

The Value of Routines and Community in Prison Trans and queer inmates share their experiences in finding belonging and normalcy within the bounds of a hostile prison system.

"You good here."

"In a place where LGBTQ offenders are targeted because of their identity, The Circle protects those in the dorm from uncomfortable conversations or physical altercations."

"It's just a place to sit and talk safely."
#Georgia #USA #Incarceration

Kyrgyzstan Releases Prominent Investigative Journalist Pending Retrial A Kyrgyz court freed a prominent investigative journalist after 18 months behind bars, placing her under a travel ban as she awaits a retrial in a case widely condemned as an attack on free speech.

"A court in Kyrgyzstan released prominent investigative journalist Makhabat Tazhibek kyzy from custody on Monday, placing her under travel restrictions pending a new trial after she spent 18 months behind bars."
#Kyrgyzstan #Media #Censorship #Incarceration #Courts

Monday GRATITUDE to our followers. You, our students, and the literature we read remind us there is awe & beauty even amidst the world's chaos! | #recovery #writingcommunity #arts #incarceration #migrant #homelessness. Please spread the word about our work. Visit us here: undergroundwriting.org

Bill to Cap Commissary Prices in ICE Facilities Advances in California Senate - Davis Vanguard The California Senate Public Safety Committee approved Senate Bill 941, which would limit price markups on goods sold in privately run ICE detention facility commissaries to 35% of vendor cost.

This is how corrupt and corrosive #immigration detention and #incarceration can be: Victory means limiting private vendors to a *35 percent* markup in their efforts to profit off of the most vulnerable and scared people in our country.

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Mr. Gideon We Will Forever Be In Your Debt...So Why Aren't We Paying?

So...a lot of my friends and followers were celebrating the anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright. Here's why I'm NOT. READ 👇 and educate yourself. The system is stacked!
#DeathPenalty #Executions #Prison #Incarceration

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New review: The Alabama Solution
#TheAlabamaSolution #AndrewJarecki #CharlotteKaufman #documentary #HBO #AL #prisonreform #Oscars #DOC #humanrights #incarceration #prison #strike #FreeAlabamaMovement #HalifaxCountyCurriculum #jailhouselawyer #KayIvey
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From Sde Teiman, the truth about Israel’s military justice system has been set free By dropping all charges against the soldiers filmed abusing a Palestinian detainee, Israel has abandoned the whole masquerade of accountability.

"[C]ontext in which [.] decision to close the Sde Teiman abuse case should be understood: not as a final nail in the coffin of the pretense of law enforcement, but rather as the abandonment of the whole masquerade."
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Incarceration #Military #Genocide #Torture #SexualViolence

People With Type 1 Diabetes Denied Basic Medical Care in Pennsylvania Prisons, Lawsuit Alleges A lawsuit alleges that the state’s prisons limit access to insulin pumps and glucose monitors, putting people with Type 1 diabetes at risk.

"Disability Rights Pennsylvania filed suit against the state's prison system, alleging that the agency provides dangerously inadequate medical care for people with Type 1 diabetes and punishes them for their disease."
#Pennsylvania #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Courts

What has Israel done to my brother? Israeli soldiers put out cigarettes on my back and called us zombies. While I was released, my brother was used as a human shield and has never returned.

"Three brothers taken, only two return."

"[T]hey had been used as human shields."

"We performed many operations, but during the last one, Adel went out and never came back."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Military #Genocide #Torture

Armenia Targets Independent Editor in Widening Crackdown Ahead of Elections Armine Ohanyan, the top editor of a prominent independent newspaper, faces potential prison time over a 2024 editorial that critics say is being weaponized to silence opposition voices ahead of parliamentary elections.

"[C]rackdown on press freedom ahead of [Armenia's] parliamentary elections."

"Armine Ohanyan, the editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Hraparak, was interrogated [..] over an editorial she wrote in December 2024."
#Armenia #Media #Incarceration #Courts #Voting

Protesters Fill Minnesota Capitol, Read Letters from Children Held in Immigration Custody More than 100 people filed into the Minnesota State Capitol on Feb. 26 to protest the prolonged detainment of children in ICE facilities around the country.

100+ "people filed into the Minnesota State Capitol on Feb. 26 to protest the prolonged detainment of children in [ICE] facilities."

They "read letters sent by children detained in ICE detention centers in Texas aloud."
#Minnesota #Texas #USA #Protest #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Disrupting the School - to - Prison Pipeline An Action Guide for Libraries Carrie Scott Banks Jill Anderson -book cover broken purple pipeline w/ flowers & dove https://alastore.ala.org/dtstpp

#Libraries 📚 #FundLibraries
American Library Association
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Disrupting #School - to - #Prison Pipeline
#school-to-prison pipeline impacts communities
#libraries & #reading can be life-altering for youth impacted by #incarceration

#Library #Literacy #Read #Books #BannedBooks
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'Beyond the pale': general says US military will create a 'camp' at Gitmo to 'deal with' Cubans fleeing Trump blockade One foreign policy expert noted that fears of a "mass exodus" of refugees come "as the US starves Cuba of energy and food."

"As the Trump administration sows chaos with a crushing fuel blockade of Cuba, a general told Congress that the military will 'set up a camp' at Guantánamo Bay to detain those who try to flee the humanitarian crisis."
#Cuba #Florida #USA #FossilFuels #Electricity #Incarceration #Military #Torture

Family seeks answers in Rohingya immigrant death investigation Federal immigration officers left Nurul Amin Shah Alam outside a closed coffee shop in harsh winter weather—days later he was found dead.

"'We became refugee after going through genocide, ethnic cleansing, persecution,' and now, 'every Rohingya say we feel the same thing. The way how ICE is treating [immigrants], it's the same thing back home.'"
#Georgia #NewYork #USA #Asylum #Genocide #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

ICE Has Abruptly Deported Thousands of Kids. Their Families Say It Traumatized Them. Families left behind keepsakes, medicine, pets, cars and homes, sometimes leaving the U.S. with little more than the clothes on their backs.

Maria Paula "entered Dilley in excellent condition and left in a very unfortunate state of health."

"She has regressed academically and emotionally."

"Under Trump, ICE has deported thousands of children under 18."
#Texas #USA #Colombia #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

ICE Jails Have Repeatedly Denied Muslims the Right to Fully Observe Ramadan The infringement of Muslims' religious rights has intensified in ICE jails under Trump 2.0, civil rights advocates say.

"Muslim detainees [..] have been given non-halal meals."

"[A]gents even tried to confiscate his Quran."

"Detainees are not able to pray the Friday prayers that are required for Muslim men."
#USA #Incarceration #Food #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Indigenous Mayan Teen From Chiapas Is Youngest to Die in ICE Custody 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez appears to be the youngest person to die in ICE custody since the Trump Administration took office. Compared to the same period last year, the death rate in ICE custody has tripled.

"Perez-Jimenez is at least the thirteenth person to die in ICE custody this year."

"Royer Perez-Jimenez was from San Juan Chamula, an autonomous Tzotzil Maya community in Chiapas, Mexico."
#Florida #USA #Mexico #Healthcare #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Suicide

Wisdom Projects' #ViolencePrevention successes flow from our #DataDriven #metrics and #outcomes and the #measurable way that we track how we have eliminated homicides and suicides; reduced #incarceration; and met 25 milestones. Read more about how we #measure our impact at wisdomprojects.org/impact

Prison Dining Giant Aramark Serves Inedible Food to Drive Commissary Sales, Lawsuit Alleges Incarcerated people in West Virginia filed a lawsuit arguing that the nation's largest prison food provider violates consumer protections.

"A federal lawsuit filed by West Virginia prisoners alleges that Aramark Corporation serves inedible, low-quality food in its prison cafeterias to drive customers to its food-for-purchase programs."
#WestVirginia #USA #Incarceration #Food #Courts

#criminaljustice #incarceration #mentalhealth #psychology

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Israeli soldiers who gang-raped Palestinian prisoner are now free to return to military service The dehumanization of Israeli society itself reaches yet another nadir, as the soldiers who gang-raped a Palestinian prisoner from Gaza are not only freed, but celebrated and recommended to return to military service.

"Katz met with a group of Israeli soldiers and apologized to them for the 'wrong that the system has done' to them, and instructed the IDF to return them to immediate service."

"The soldiers [..] gang-raped a Palestinian prisoner."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Torture #SexualViolence

High Schooler Detained by ICE Released After 10 Months Contreras was the first known New York City public school student to be detained by ICE.

"Dylan Lopez Contreras, the first New York City public school student detained by federal immigration officials during [..] Trump's second term, was released [..] after spending 10 months in federal custody."
#NewYork #USA #Courts #Asylum #Education #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Programs like these help cut the recidivism rate quite a bit. #Incarceration, #PrisonPrograms, #RecidivismRate

Supporters Celebrate Release of Palestinian Leqaa Kordia — But Fight Continues Kordia can now return to her family after a year in ICE jail, but the Trump administration may continue to target her.

"Leqaa is finally liberated from surviving one year of retaliatory and arbitrary immigration confinement."

"Today, we celebrate Leqaa's return home. Tomorrow, we continue the fight for justice."
#Texas #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Protest #Genocide #Deportation #EthnicCleansing