Prisoner Activist

Each year, more than 700,000 people are released from state and Federal prison, while another 9 million cycle through local jails. Statistics indicate that more than two-thirds of state prisoners...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/reversing-recidivism-methods-for-success/

Originally posted on Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity : Please check for ongoing Updates HERE and at @svdebug and @CURYJ on Twitter and Facebook. Families, loved ones and community members,   ...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/support-demands-of-prisoners-united-on-hunger-strike-starting-in-alameda-county-jails/

Kids held in solitary confinement at Rikers Island, the massive jail complex in the middle of New York City’s East River, are truly pushed to their limits, with many throwing fits, hallucinatin...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/torture-expressed-through-art-a-teens-horrifying-tale-of-solitary-confinement-at-nycs-rikers-island-jail/

News, reports and other resources on criminal justice and prison reform

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/book-review-the-rise-of-solitary/

RIP Comrade Brother Hugo “Yogi Bear” Pinell.

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/revolutionary-eulogy-by-texas-chicano-pow-politikal-prisoner-alvaro-luna-hernandez-for-komrade-brother-hugo-yogi-bear-pinell/

By Stephanie Tyrpak By Randy Livingston Story Created: Mar 23, 2015 at 4:55 PM CDT             WSIL — A new class-action lawsuit targets hundreds of corrections officers statewide and cla...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/orange-crush-prison-unit-targeted-in-illinois-abuse-lawsuit/

Originally posted on Prison Protest : The AP reports that the NYC Board of Correction (BOC) will vote this coming Tuesday on changes to solitary confinement on Rikers Island, including a new En...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/nyc-doubles-down-on-solitary-confinement-with-latest-rikers-reforms/

Originally posted on Touching Your Community.com : Text by Jeremy Berlin On a windy April day in central Indiana, six men enter a room.Three are white, three are black. Two are over 50, the rest...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/shakespeare-in-shackles/

The following piece is yet another well written satire on solitary confinement from The Onion. City Opens New Art Jail NEWS • Crime & Justice • ISSUE 47•29 • Jul 20, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO—...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/another-satire-piece-by-the-onion-on-maximum-security-prisons-and-solitary-confinement/

The following satire on solitary confinement from The Onion rings all too true (save for the part about “several days,” as many people are held in solitary for years or decades). NEWS IN BR...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/satire-piece-on-solitary-rings-home-man-in-solitary-confinement-cant-break-with-reality-fast-enough/

The following guide, published by the Human Rights Coalition, offers guidelines for prisoners on reporting human rights violations. The method described is simple, requiring documentation, inte...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/reporting-human-rights-violations-a-how-to-guide-for-prisoners-4/

The following, originally posted on Internet Archive Blogs, is a brief list of resources ideal for becoming acquainted with the U.S. prison system, including some history. DOCUMENTARIES • Wo...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/exploring-the-u-s-prison-system-documentaries-books-and-more/

The future is uncertain for Jeffery Havard, who currently sits wrongfully convicted in solitary confinement on Mississippi’s death row, where he has remained for almost 13 years. Time is runni...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/jeffrey-havard-fights-wrongful-conviction-and-death-sentence-from-mississippis-death-row-2/

Torture expressed through art: “A teen’s horrifying tale of solitary confinement at NYC’s Rikers Island jail” (reblogged from Fusion):

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/the-box-a-teens-horrifying-tale-of-solitary-confinement-at-rikers/

Eagle & Bull Productions is currently in the production stage of a documentary about art’s positive influence on prisoners. The documentary profilies the artwork of Brandon Hein, a prisoner lo...

https://prisoneractivist.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/the-brandon-hein-project-a-film-about-art-and-prison/