From NYLJ: A judge has refused to order a state commission that monitors conditions at county jails to rewrite its final report on the suicide of an inmate at the behest of Ontario County officials who argued, in part, that the findings would make it harder to defend themselves against…
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from Democracy Now! Questions are mounting over the state of California’s prison system following the death of a hunger-striking inmate protesting conditions behind bars. Christian Gomez, 27, died at Corcoran State Prison, just six days after he and about 30 fellow prisoners began refusing food. Gomez was one of thousands…
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Alabama prison officials banned the award-winning book. Will they now stop prisoners from viewing the upcoming PBS documentary based on it, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II? The PBS broadcast on Monday, February 13, comes in the wake of…
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