Something rather astounding happened in 2011: prisoners went on strike, and people paid attention. A hunger strike over conditions in California prisons that started at Pelican Bay, the state’s notorious supermax facility infamous for its use of solitary confinement, spread across the state, attracting headlines and attention across the country. Not just in prison media, …
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Social Justice Matters: Solitary Confinement
Solitary confinement is one among many tools used for social control in the US prison system, but it’s something that bears particularly close examination because it is perhaps one of the most clear examples of how prisoners are abused in the name of ‘maintaining order’ and ‘keeping prisons safe’ and it is considered by many …
Triumphant Tapirs
Matt Luby at The Stranger: Liquor Officers Gone Wild Under vague state liquor rules, agents even have authority to penalize bars for employees baring butt cracks. Dave Mann at Texas Observer: Solitary Men Their lives are confined to 60-square-foot cells in which they languish 23 hours a day, alone in a featureless room, behind a …
