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#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #VictoriaLaw, author of "#CorridorsOfContagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of #Incarceration."

Law describes in harrowing detail how state neglect and #carceralAbuse amplified the ravages of #Covid19 in the US prison system

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic

#USprisons #USpol #prisons #prisonIndustrialComplex #socialMurder #Covid19USA #books @bookstodon

Amplifying the Violence of Incarceration: Victoria Law on Prisons During Pandemic - Speaking Out of Place

Today I am honored to speak with veteran journalist Victoria Law. She is the author of such books as Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (co-autho...

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TinDrum 20h ago

Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund

'When I wrote my book about the Bund, I made sure to focus on the women. Some were barricade fighters and orators. Some shot guns, wrote theoretical treatises, and pulled their friends off of boxcars bound for Treblinka...I tried to pay attention to the humbler work of life. The women’s vigils alongside Mokotow prison. The women on the bus to Rikers. The aunties who pack the packages. The hands that keep movements alive'

#history #literature #bookstodon #jewishBund #resistance #prisonIndustrialComplex

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a70884911/molly-crabapple-bund/

The Women of the Bund Fought to Free Their Loved Ones

Artist and writer Molly Crabapple looks to the history of Jewish radicals in early 20th century Poland to understand the legacy of women fighting for their families.

Harper's BAZAAR

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6

🇺🇲 ICE’s Appalling Warehouse Prison Scheme
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/06/ices-appalling-warehouse-prison-scheme

ICE plans to spend $38.3B turning warehouses into detention centers
https://archive.fo/3hrul

Trump2’s controversial, costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings

Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison's Virginia warehouse could become ICE facility
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115967697788277513

#Christofascism #capitalism #billionaires #PrisonIndustrialComplex #authoritarianism

TinDrum Feb 22

'Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement...So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone'

#ice #usPol #tourism #immigration #prisonIndustrialComplex

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

The Guardian

MindTGap Feb 15

#Acyn 9FEB2026
#AOC on #DHS #Warehouses: "I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike."
#x #shitter #twitter #trumpregime #PrisonIndustrialComplex #DetentionCenters #ConcentrationCamps #us #murica #america
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2021014820599038140

Acyn (@Acyn) on X

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

X (formerly Twitter)

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 6

PrisonIndustrialComplex: U.S. military helping Trump to build massive network of ‘concentration camps,’ Navy contract reveals
https://therealnews.com/us-military-helping-trump-to-build-massive-network-of-concentration-camps-navy-contract-reveals

Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.
#MiseryIndustrialComplex

#ICE #DHS #CBS #capitalism #billionaires #corporations #IndustrialComplex #PrisonIndustrialComplex
#Christofascism #transgenocide #xenophobia #TLM #BTLM

US military helping Trump to build massive network of ‘concentration camps,’ Navy contract reveals

The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.

The Real News Network

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 31

... * 10x ICE’s typical annual funding

* money flowing into 800k-square-foot mega-warehouses positioned near major airports
* designed to hold 5k-10k detainees each

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag

#capitalism #PrisonIndustrialComplex #billionaires #corporations #inequality
#DemocraticSocialism #justice #HumanRights

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 29

Wealth, power, influence: ICE Detention Contractors Reaping Massive Profits
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/ice-migrant-detention-contractors-profits/

Largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in U.S. expect epic payout

For every $1 they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap $11,000+ in increased *annual* revenue

#Christofascism #discrimination wedge: #transgenocide #hate
#capitalism #billionaires #corporations #PrisonIndustrialComplex
Solution: #RevolutionaryCommununism #DemocraticSocialism

ICE Detention Contractors Are Reaping Massive Profits

The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue.

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 14

🇺🇲 Feeding the fascist machine: Shadow Contractors Train ICE Attack Goons
https://www.levernews.com/shadow-contractors-are-training-ices-attack-teams

ICE spends $$$ on firearms, munitions, politically connected weapons training firms to further militarize its forces
#PrisonIndustrialComplex

ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70k Immigrants Now Jailed; Deaths Increase
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/american_immigration_council

Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment: Hired w. No Background Check
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/laura_jedeed_ice

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #AmericanReich
#capitalism #DemocraticSocialism

Shadow Contractors Are Training ICE’s Attack Teams

ICE is spending big on firearms, munitions, and politically connected weapons training firms to further militarize its forces.

The Lever

The USA Potato Dec 22

Prison Health Care Continues to Deteriorate Under Donald Trump

Donald Trump, at the start of both his first and second terms, said that he would order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to clean up its act in the area of prison health care. Trump also pledged to push states to improve health care in their prison syst...

https://murica.website/2025/12/prison-health-care-continues-to-deteriorate-under-donald-trump/