Prisons

This is from the Jericho Campaign listserve. -Rick
Retaliatory Campaign Continues
By Bruce A. Dixon
Created 03/21/2011 - 19:53
Submitted by Bruce A. Dixon on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 19:53
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/georgia-dept-corrections-withho...

Story by Bruce A. Dixon, audio interview by Glen Ford

The historic strike of Georgia prisoners, demanding wages for their labor, educational opportunities, adequate health care and nutrition, and better conditions is entering a new phase. Strikers [4] remain firm in their demands for full human rights, though after several days many have emerged from their cells, if only to take hot showers and hot food. Many of these, however, are still refusing their involuntary and unpaid work assignments.

Tiresiasspeaks is a cool source to check out. This is, in my view, an important under-reported story. Corpomedia won't expose tehir buddies in the private prison industry. -Rick

http://tiresiasspeaks.wordpress.com/

Private Prison Industry Behind Arizona’s New Immigration Law

Arizona seized the international spotlight last April when Governor Jan Brewer signed immigration Bill 1070 into law. The new law requires police officers to arrest any person they stop who cannot immediately prove that they entered the country legally.

Immigrant communities, their sympathizers, and civil liberties advocates have violently condemned the bill as a blatant endorsement of racial profiling that does nothing to address the root causes of illegal immigration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyvM0K1z-BI

The Crossroads to Change campaign posted a video documenting the continuing detention of a young woman for so-called mental illness, almost one year now. Her mother and some support people are shown in the video approaching Western State Hospital to obtain the documents of her continuance, signed the very day her mother sat awaiting a hearing in vain (they lied and told her mother that she had signed a voluntary commitment on herself, but that is not what the documents showed!).