“When The Punishment Is A Crime” AFSC’s Bonnie Kerness at the Forum on Solitary Confinement
Meet the company making over $1billion dollars from inmates’ illnesses: Corizon.
Our new blog post asks some challenging questions about healing, reconciliation, forgiveness and safety through the story of a Quaker congregation and how they grapple with welcoming a former sex-offender into their community. http://bit.ly/HealingExperiment
SACRAMENTO — Gloria Steinem, Jesse Jackson, Bonnie Raitt and Jay Leno have joined prison hunger strikers in calling for an end to California’s use of solitary confinement to control prison gang violence. (via Celebrities join prison hunger strikers in protesting isolation)
Think private prisons are whack?
Heard about CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) in Kanye’s “New Slaves” and want to know what we do to stop people from profiting off of incarcerating young black men?
TODAY 3pm ET we’re having a google hangout with three activists who’ve worked to stop private prison growth in their state.
(You don’t need a web cam or anything, it’s watching a live one way video but you can text chat underneath).
Help us spread the word!
Join in at http://bit.ly/PrivatePrisonsHangout
Let California know the world is watching: Four ways you can support the 30,000 incarcerated people in California prisons currently on hunger strike and taking nonviolent action for change.http://bit.ly/CAStrike
