Category Prison and Police Reform
Away with Borders! Why We Need Less Restrictive, More Open Borders and Eventual Border Elimination
“Detaining immigrants is a big and profitable business whose product is human misery. It is estimated that over 75 percent of detainees are detained in for-profit detention centers.”
Minneapolis Set to Vote on Dissolving Police Department, by Mike Ludwig
“If passed, Question 2 would not immediately remove police officers from the streets or the city’s payroll. Instead, proponents say, Question 2 would kickstart the process of expanding the city’s approach to public safety — such as dispatching unarmed social workers to help unhoused people and sending de-escalation experts to domestic disputes — rather than relying on the “armed-police only” approach.”
Hedges: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
“The six-month sentence was the maximum the judge was allowed to impose; she ruled that his house arrest cannot be counted as part of his detention. From start to finish, this has been a burlesque. It is emblematic of a court system that has been turned over to lackies of corporate power, who use the veneer of jurisprudence, decorum, and civility to make a mockery of the rule of law.”
Glenn Greenwald: Julian Assange’s Imprisonment Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom
“Censorship, like most repression, is reserved for those who dissent from majoritarian orthodoxies, not for those who express views comfortably within the mainstream.”
FREE THEM ALL! A Story by Roger Cuthbertson
“FREE THEM ALL! (Yes, free all of the people locked up in jails and prisons in the U.S.)”
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