The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Landor v. Louisiana, a religious freedom case testing whether prison officials can be held personally liable under federal law for violating a Rastafarian inmate’s right to keep his dreadlocks as an expression of religious faith.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/11/faith-behind-bars-supreme-court-weighs-religious-freedom-limits-for-rastafarian-inmate.html

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Faith Behind Bars: Supreme Court Weighs Religious Freedom Limits for Rastafarian Inmate

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Landor v. Louisiana, a religious freedom case testing whether prison officials can be held personally liable under federal law for violating a Rastafarian inmate’s right to keep his dreadlocks as an expression of religious faith.

The Wild Hunt
Sign Petition: Prisoners in Texas Are Being Cooked to Death by Extreme Heat

Join us in calling for lifesaving cooling measures, now! (36220 signatures on petition)

Suspicious Prisoner Deaths And Suicides Multiply In Iran

Alireza Khari is not the only political prisoner in Iran who committed suicide under continuous psychological pressure and torture, even after release from prison.

Iran International
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Man who died in Alabama prison was reportedly returned to family without organs | Alabama | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/alabama-prison-missing-organs
Man who died in Alabama prison was reportedly returned to family without organs

Second recent case involving allegations of missing body parts from Alabama prisoners involves man whose brain was removed

The Guardian

Prisoners in #OakhillCI are going hungry!!! ONE SGT NAMED KIOSKI has been denying prisoners their meal packs during Ramadan (using fake ass infractions such as wearing the wrong shoes to chow line) which is in complete violation of federal prisoners protections around religious practices AND WI administrative code! PLEASE CALL THE WARDEN TO FILE A COMPLAINT - MUSLIM PRISONERS ARE GOING HUNGRY!!!

Warden's office is 608-835-3101 option 8 then option 6

#wisconsinprison #prisonerrights #religiousfreedom #islamophobia

"This is a human rights issue, a racial justice issue, an environmental justice issue and a public health issue. It is a scale on which we weigh our humanity, our civilization.

As it stands, we are neither civilized nor humane."

#OperationPUSH #PrisonerRights

https://www.artkillingapathy.com/prisoners-suffer-gross-human-rights-violations-theyre-standing-speaking/

Prisoners Suffer Gross Human Rights Violations. Now They're Standing & Speaking Up. - Art Killing Apathy

  “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”  – Fyodor Dostoyevsky   On January 15th, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, prisoners in at least eight Florida prisons began a 30-day work strike known as Operation PUSH. In an anonymous message sent to Supporting Prisoners and Real Change (SPARC), …

Art Killing Apathy