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Georgia Prison Guards Arrested for Retaliatory Abuse of Inmate

by Julianne Hing
Friday, February 25 2011, 3:48 PM EST


On Monday seven Georgia prison guards were arrested for their
involvement in the December  beating of Terrance Dean, a 29-year-old
prisoner in Macon State Prison after a highly publicized prison strike.



 Photo: istock/Frances Twitty

America's shocking secret: Pictures that show how U.S. experimented on its own disabled citizens and prison inmates

Pictures have emerged providing the
shocking proof that U.S. government doctors once experimented on
disabled American citizens and prison inmates.

Such
experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in
Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners
in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at
a New York hospital.

TAKE ACTION: Tell the DOJ to address sexual abuse in detention

http://justdetention.org/en/takeaction.aspx   please go to the website

Right now, you can help make sure that the Department of Justice
protects all people behind bars from the pain and trauma of sexual
abuse. The Department has released proposed national standards
addressing sexual abuse in detention, and is accepting public comments
until April 4, 2011.  

2/28/11 Update on SF8 Hearing!!!

2/28/2011......

As of Sunday 2/27/11 it appears as though there were wiretaps and the prosecution has halted the hearing for Francisco Torres of the SF8.  You can find updated postings of the case and situation for Francisco at www(dot)freethesf8.blogspot.com

850 Bryant St, Department 22 (dept may change, ask a bailiff), San Francisco, CA

Still No News of 37 Missing Georgia Prison Strikers...



February 19, 2011
By Eugene Thomas

We still haven’t heard of who and where are those 37 Georgia prisoners
who were labeled the leaders and organizers of the sit-down strike that
began Dec. 9. But we do know that there are some prisoners from Smith
State Prison here being harassed for participating in the protest. I
haven’t been able to get to the lock-down unit where they are being

Critical Resistance Releases a Report on Oakland Gang Injunctions

From their website:

In February 2009, Oakland City Attorney John Russo went public with plans to file gang injunctions throughout the city. More than a year later, with one injunction temporarily in place, another proposed, and the threat of up to 11 more to follow, there is widespread and rapidly mounting opposition to the injunctions citywide.

We oppose gang injunctions because they are ineffective, costly, and harmful to our communities.

PA Judge Guilty of Racketeering in Kickback Case

Read the original article here.

February 19, 2011

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former juvenile court judge defiantly insisted he never accepted money for sending large numbers of children to detention centers even after he was convicted of racketeering for taking a $1 million kickback from the builder of the for-profit lockups.

NEW YORK DMV WILL USE WOMEN PRISONERS TO ANSWER PHONES

Departments of Correctional Services and Motor Vehicles Open Cost-Saving Call Center at Women’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

Federal lawsuit challenges sex offender registration for prostitutes

Federal lawsuit challenges sex offender registration for prostitutes

Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:03 PM     Updated: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:18 PM

People who must register as sex offenders because they were convicted of engaging in oral or anal sex for money filed a lawsuit against state officials last night, arguing the requirement is unconstitutional and discriminatory.

Prisoners Have No Choice But to Drink Arsenic-Laced Water

Prisoners Have No Choice But to Drink Arsenic-Laced Water
Charles Davis

WASHINGTON, 15 Feb (IPS) - When Kern Valley State Prison opened in 2005, the 379 million dollar facility in Central California was hailed as "state of the art". But within weeks of opening, a major problem was discovered: its water was poisoned - containing roughly twice the federally permitted level of arsenic, a known carcinogen.

And nothing has been done about it.

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