All posts tagged "private prisons"
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Camps and Detainment
American Inmates Stage Nationwide Prison Labor Strike over ‘Modern Slavery’
August 21, 2018Prisoners in 17 states across the country started a two-week strike Tuesday, calling for an end to “modern slavery.” Prisoners...
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Controlling the Herd
App That Crowdsources Bail Lets Anyone Help Disrupt America’s Mass Incarceration
January 15, 2018At face value, the system’s corruption and breadth appear too overwhelming to tackle head on, but...
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Controlling the Herd
Private Prisons Prove Slavery Alive and Well in America
November 7, 2017Nothing like state-sanctioned, 25 cents an hour slave labor... Courtesy of the contractual quotas built into...
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Controlling the Herd
Video: Jeff Sessions Escalates the War on Drugs, Orders Harsher Sentencing
May 12, 2017Everyone - except Jeff Sessions, it seems - knows that the War on Drugs has been...
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Controlling the Herd
Two Bipartisan Bills to End Federal Regulation of Marijuana Have Been Introduced. Do They Have a Chance to Pass? Not Likely
February 28, 2017Bipartisan legislation that would exclude marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and leave regulating the plant...
