Prison Industrial Complex Category Archives
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Arrested for Suspected Breaking and Entering… Into His Own Home!?
Published on 20 Jul 2009 at 10:40 pm.
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Filed under racism, ridiculousness, Prison Industrial Complex.
Social critic and comedian Dave Chapelle hilariously described the tense relationship between Black men and police in his landmark stand-up performance, Killing ‘em Softly.
I’m not saying I don’t like police. I’m not saying that. I’m saying, I’m just scared of them. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes, we want to call them too. Somebody broke into […]
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Cities Profiting From Immigrant Detention
Published on 5 Apr 2009 at 11:41 am.
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Filed under collective action, Prison Industrial Complex.
[my column reprinted from WireTap Mag]
Column: Budget shortfalls have prompted cities to raise revenue by jailing undocumented immigrants.
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Washington Governor Chris Gregoire is proposing the early release of some inmates to help balance his state’s budget. Meanwhile, cities in Los Angeles County are relying on the arrest and detention of immigrants to keep their coffers full. […]
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Mumia Abu Jamal: Either Life Sentence or a New Hearing
Published on 28 Mar 2008 at 6:41 pm.
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Filed under racism, Prison Industrial Complex.
Mumia Abu Jamal, a former memeber of the Black Panther Party was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner by a (nearly) all white jury. This controversial trail has been the center of international debates on the death penalty, the prison industrial complex, and racism in the American […]
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U.S. Judicial System: Falling Through the Crack
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 10:42 am.
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Filed under racism, news/politics, Prison Industrial Complex.
This week the Supreme Court addressed a case, which brought the issue of the disparity in sentencing between powder cocaine and crack cocaine into the forefront of national politics. For those of you who aren’t aware of the imbalance, it goes a little something like this: federal law enforces a 100-to-1 disparity between crack […]
