solitary confinement
Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Having "Copious Amounts of Anarchist Publications"
Illinois inmate Mark "Migs" Neiweem got put in a tiny cell with a white supremacist, all because he wrote stuff like, "Love + Peace + Equality = Anarchism."
Omar Khadr: War Criminal, Child Soldier... or Neither?
Toronto-born Omar Khadr was captured by Americans in Afghanistan in 2002 and was accused of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier. After eight years in Gitmo, he confessed. Now he's sitting in a federal prison in Edmonton.
Starve Yourself Free
Inmates in California just ended their hunger strike against conditions in solitary confinement after two months, and the fact that they starved themselves for that long as a protest shows you how cruel and unusual prisons' shit has gotten.
Thousands of California Prisoners Are on Hunger Strike Right Now
When contacted by VICE, a spokesman for the California prison system refused to confirm that 30,000 inmates are currently on hunger strike—which would make the current strike the largest in California history. "I don't even know where that number came...
Down in the Hole
The cops definitely use the box as a tool, and it’s been seriously overused. In New York, the box is officially called a Special Housing Unit (SHU), and it is a serious tool to keep the inmates in check. I did very limited box time, and it scared the...
