toiida🌻Mar 12, 2025
Пенитенциарные садисты! Что может нарушить человек, сидящий 46 лет в одиночной камере, чтобы отбирать у него научно-популярные книги? https://nypost.com/2025/03/08/world-news/robert-maudsley-stages-hunger-strike-over-confiscated-playstation/ ⦾ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8,_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82 #RobertMaudsley #penology #prisons #hungerstrike #scipop
Infamous 'cannibal' serial killer goes on hunger strike after prison guards take his PlayStation

Robert Maudsley is refusing to chow down after guards at the prison holding him took away his TV and PlayStation.

New York Post
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 6, 2025

Second U.S. Federal Judge Blocked Incarcerated Trans Women f. Being Moved to Men's Prisons
https://www.them.us/story/second-federal-judge-blocked-incarcerated-trans-women-moved-mens-prisons

* plaintiffs say that Tump’s sweeping anti-trans executive order violates U.S. Constitution

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113925757740175188
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113952220315608963

#TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights #HumanRights
#fascism #Trump2 #Trump #GOP #penology #Project2025
#Christofascism #theocracy #transgenocide
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #transphobia

A Second Federal Judge Has Blocked Incarcerated Trans Women From Being Moved to Men's Prisons

The plaintiffs say that the President’s sweeping anti-trans executive order violates the Constitution.

Them.
WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 16, 2024

A quotation from Hugo, Victor:

«
It is characteristic of this form of punishment, inspired by all that is pitiless, that is to say brutalizing, that gradually, by a process of mindless erosion, it turns a man into an animal, sometimes a ferocious one.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hugo-victor/73428/

#quote #quotes #quotation #abuse #brutality #brutalizing #callousness #dehumanization #penology #pitilessness #prison #punishment

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 3, 2024

Journalists Must Report on Prisons — But We Need to Protect Incarcerated Sources
Incarcerated people risk harsh reprisal when they speak out about the abuses they face. We must protect them
https://truthout.org/articles/journalists-must-report-on-prisons-but-we-need-to-protect-incarcerated-sources

Never Going Back: Releasing Inmates During a Pandemic
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/never-going-back-releasing-inmates-during-a-pandemic/600b18d59e92e45f4e0353e1

#prisons #penology #PrisonersRights #capitalism #PrisonIndustrialComplex #PrisonerAbuse #journalism

Journalists Must Report on Prisons — But We Need to Protect Incarcerated Sources

Incarcerated people risk harsh reprisal when they speak out about the abuses they face. We must protect them.

Truthout
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 2, 2024

U.S. Dept. Justice: Texas juvenile detention centers violated youth offenders’ rights
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/01/texas-juvenile-justice-facilities-doj

* unconstitutional conditions at all 5 of Texas’ juvenile detention facilities
* children exposed to excessive force, sexual abuse
* disabled children faced discrimination that kept them in custody longer or sent them to adult prisons

DoJ report: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-07/2024_tjjd_findings_report.pdf

#DoJ #Texas #youth #penology #LawEnforcement #conservatism #GregAbbott #PrisonersRights #ChildAbuse

Justice Department finds Texas juvenile detention centers violated youth offenders’ rights

The DOJ found that officers overused pepper spray, kept youths in prolonged isolation and failed to protect them from sexual abuse.

The Texas Tribune
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 31, 2024

Alabama Families seek answers after inmates' bodies returned w/o internal organs
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/families-seek-answers-after-inmates-bodies-returned-without-internal-organs-1.6983715

* mom shocked: son died in Alabama prison, suspected drug overdose
* spoke to him to earlier that evening: he was doing fine, talking about hoped move to prison's honor dorm
* after state autopsy undertaker said 43-y.o.'s internal organs missing
* family had not given permission for organs to be retained, destroyed

#Alabama #PrisonersRights #penology

Families seek answers after inmates' bodies returned without internal organs

Six families whose loved ones died in Alabama prisons have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the state's department of corrections, saying their family members' bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies.

CTVNews
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 25, 2024

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Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation
https://apnews.com/article/prisons-labor-lawsuit-investigation-b41d72f87dc22e0a351a1a8f5345b9bc

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Penal labor exemption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Penal_labor_exemption

* exempts penal labor f. prohibition of forced labor
* allows prisoners convicted of crimes to be required to perform labor else face punishment

#HeatStress #slavery #capitalism #corporations #PrisonIndustrialComplex #penology #prisons #PrisonersRights #PrisonAbolition #immigrants #conservatism #discrimination

Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South

As daily temperatures hit record highs across much of the South, a federal judge has taken an unusual step, challenging the treatment of mostly Black incarcerated workers in the fields. America’s largest maximum-security prison, known as Angola, sits on 18,000 acres in Louisiana. It was once a slave plantation. Prisoners have toiled on the same farm lines since after emancipation, often without shade, adequate work breaks or even sunscreen. Several incarcerated workers along with an advocacy group filed a class-action lawsuit calling for an end to the farm line. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month accusing correctional officials of showing “deliberate indifference” to the risks of injuries or death of incarcerated workers.

AP News
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 25, 2024

Private prison giant GEO Group ramps up lobbying on immigrant surveillance
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/07/private-prison-giant-geo-group-ramps-up-lobbying-on-immigrant-surveillance

* one of the world’s largest private prison companies
* ramping up lobbying as lawmakers in Washington eye budget cuts to “alternatives to detention” programs

[thread] prisons, conditions:
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110653873757382969

#capitalism #corporations #PrisonIndustrialComplex #penology #prisons #HumanRights #PrisonersRights #PrisonAbolition #immigrants #conservatism #discrimination

Private prison giant GEO Group ramps up lobbying on immigrant surveillance - OpenSecrets News

GEO Group, one of the world’s largest private prison companies, is ramping up lobbying as lawmakers eye budget cuts to “alternatives to detention” programs. 

OpenSecrets News
earthlingApr 7, 2024

Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia by Mitchel P. Roth, 2006

This comprehensive encyclopedia provides a historical overview of institutions and systems around the world, as well as penal theories, prisoner culture and life, and notable prisoners and personnel.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#encyclopedia
#history
#penology
#prisons

earthlingApr 7, 2024

The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society by Norval Morris & David J. Rothman, 1995

A rich history that reveals how our ideas of crime and practices of punishment have changed over time.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#penology
#history
#prisons
#incarceration
#punishment