Brian Sonenstein

Brian Sonenstein is the publishing editor at Shadowproof and a columnist at Prison Protest.

Эксперты переписывают историю, чтобы защитить запись Байдена о политике "свисток собаки"

Сегодняшние центристские либералы хотят исключить голоса тех, на кого повлияла эта политика, как это было в 1990-х годах. Может быть, времена не так уж и разные.

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Pundits Defend Joe Biden Record of Dog-Whistle Politics Feature photo

An emerging defense of Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign is that many of his questionable political acts occurred during a “different time.” When it comes to the 1994 “crime bill,” it is excused as a product of a time when the United States was more tolerant of racial injustice than it is today. Biden wrote the legislation that became

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Заключенные сталкиваются с проблемой отказа от публичного выступления о национальном забастовке

Суровые дисциплинарные меры являются иллюстрацией абсурдной длины, по которой тюремные чиновники пойдут на то, чтобы помешать заключенным говорить о предстоящей забастовке.

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National Prison Strike

Ohio prison officials revoked phone access for one year and suspended other privileges for an incarcerated activist, who spoke publicly in support of a nationwide prison protest scheduled to begin August 21. Siddique Abdullah Hasan has advocated prisoner resistance for decades from death row at the Ohio State Penitentiary, where he has lived

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Всенародный тюремный удар начинается в наименее семнадцати государствах

Десять требований были выбраны для их широкого обращения к лицам, содержащимся под стражей, которые проводились в разных контекстах по всей стране.

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prison strike

Incarcerated people in at least seventeen states are expected to protest from August 21 to September 9 for “humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform, and the end of modern day slavery.” Organizers told Shadowproof their demands don’t represent a full solution to the problems of incarceration. However, they are a

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США были вовлечены в дело разрыва семей в течение многих лет

ICE при Обаме в среднем 309 887 арестов в год с 2009-2012 года, в то время как ICE под Трампом в среднем составлял 139 553 в 2017 году.

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deportations

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein about a bill she introduced, which would prohibit the federal government from separating immigrant children from their families during arrests at ports of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States. As he asked his question, Tapper brought up a photo taken in 2014 of

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Министерство сельского хозяйства США предоставило более 277 миллионов долларов США на строительство местной тюрьмы с 1996 года

Границы в штате, которые получали большую часть средств из программы за последние 20 лет, собрали кредиты на сумму 66,7 млн. Долл. США с 2005 года.

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The Harris County Jail houses more than 8,000 inmates at any given time. For three months last year, 17-year-old Lena was one of them. (Photo: Callie Richmond/The Texas Tribune)

The United States government provided over $277 million in funding for county jail construction since 1996, according to documents obtained by Shadowproof. The funding came in the form of grants and long-term low-interest loans through the Community Facilities Direct Loan and Grant Program run by the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development

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Oklahoma Moves Forward with Execution by Nitrogen Gas Chamber

Oklahoma’s turn towards nitrogen hypoxia is a response to multiple horrific botched executions involving lethal injection in recent years.

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The gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)

Oklahoma will execute prisoners using an experimental method never before attempted anywhere in the world: nitrogen hypoxia. Mike Hunter, the state’s attorney general, and Joe M. Allbaugh, the director of the department of corrections, announced Oklahoma will asphyxiate prisoners by locking them in a chamber that will fill with a physiologically

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Justice Department Has No Idea If Their Incarceration Alternatives Work

The Justice Department’s ignorance gives contractors an opening for more business without having to prove that their lucrative services actually provide the support needed to reduce recidivism.

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Razor wire at the maximum-security Mount Olive Correctional Center in Mount Olive, W.Va. (AP/Steve Helber)

The Justice Department is not evaluating the performance of pretrial diversion programs, residential re-entry centers, and home confinement, according to congressional testimony from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Under President Barack Obama administration, the Justice Department sought to reduce booming federal prison populations

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