Tag: prison
48-year political prisoner reviews John Oliver’s report on solitary confinement | Rattling the Bars
The topic of solitary confinement was the focus of a recent episode of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of activists organizing against solitary confinement for decades, awareness of…
Cash bail is an abomination of justice | Rattling the Bars
While the underlying logic of the cash bail system in the US may sound convincing on paper, in practice it has become a means of denying justice to, and destroying the lives of, people who…
Khader Adnan’s matyrdom and Israel’s abuse of Palestinians w/Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi| Rattling the Bars
The death of Khader Adnan in Israeli detention during a hunger strike on May 2 of this year sparked mourning worldwide and a general strike in occupied Palestine. The 45-year-old Adnan was on his 87th…
These former prisoners are fighting mass incarceration | Rattling the Bars
*Editor’s note: At 00:56, host Mansa Musa misspeaks when quoting a report and says that 55 million people are in the system of mass incarceration; the correct number is 5.5 million. Over 1.9 million people…
Addiction and prison in Alaska | Rattling the Bars
Mass incarceration as we know it today owes much of its existence to the political rationale created by the War on Drugs. Although proffered as a solution to the public health crisis of drug addiction,…
Trump and how America treats the rich vs. the poor | Rattling the Bars
Former President Donald Trump is facing 34 felony counts in New York State and an additional 37 felony federal charges. None of this prevents him from freely campaigning for President and appearing before the media….
Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline w/Keturah Herron | Rattling the Bars
The system of mass incarceration extends into the public education system. Known as the school-to-prison pipeline, policies that criminalize youth and their families, from the presence of police in schools to discriminatory and punitive practices…
How Maryland discriminates against women prisoners | Rattling the Bars
Jessup, Maryland is home to the state’s only women’s prison, the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women, commonly known as “The Cut”. For years, advocates fought for a women’s pre-release center, which would house prisoners eligible…
Alabama’s ‘astonishingly cruel,’ untested plan to kill Kenneth Smith | Rattling the Bars
While the death penalty has been abolished in 23 states and Washington, DC, other states are doubling down on the barbaric practice of capital punishment. Idaho wants to bring back firing squads, and now the…
Juvenile sentencing in the US is barbaric, racist, and ineffective | Rattling the Bars
“The United States is the only country in the world that permits youth to be sentenced to life without parole,” the Juvenile Law Center notes. “Sentencing children to die in prison is condemned by international…
They were released from Guantanamo. But the horrors didn’t end | Rattling the Bars
The revelations of widespread torture of detainees at the illegal US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, rattled the American conscience during the Bush Jr. administration. Two decades later, detainments at Guantanamo continue, but the public…
The dark side of El Salvador’s ‘gang crackdown’ w/Michael Fox | Rattling the Bars
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has now suspended the rule of law in his country for 18 months, during which time more than 70,000 people have been rounded up and imprisoned without trial in the naming…
Maximum Security: Behind Bars at the Shelton Intensive Management Unit
The Washington Corrections Center is a men’s prison in Shelton, Washington. Inside the walls of WCC is what the Department of Corrections terms a “prison within a prison” — the Shelton Intensive Management Unit, or…
“I did what I thought was right” | The Complete Confession of Steven Sandison
About twelve hours after offing his cellmate Ted Dyer, Steven Sandison calmly walked up to a prison guard and told him what he had done. Despite having violently murdered his girlfriend in 1991, Sandison didn’t…
‘My cellmate wouldn’t stop coming on to me, so I tied him up and took his assâ€
Dino. J. Bennetti is in for life on a small handful of charges, including murder. Watch his Sandison-esque flat demeanor as Bennetti describes his deed from just earlier in the day… only Bennetti didn’t off…
The Nicest Police K9 Takedown EVER
Support the stream: https://streamlabs.com/mikethecop1 In a recent Pasco County arrest of a violent suspect, k9 Knox decided southern hospitality was the way to go. Mike the Cop compares that to other options when being a…
Prison SWAT vs Shank Wielding Hostage Taker
Back in 2006, the Judge should have listened to Timothy Monk when he said “I shall return.†Those words were spoken at his sentencing him to 28 more years of his already 97 year sentence…
THE RAW FILEZ
unhealthy eat habits among cops is a serious issue, the amount of junk food they consume is obvious. They should also care about their love life, and stop hogging all of the dick donuts. Check…
A Copwatch Documentary: FULL DISCLOSURE
unhealthy eat habits among cops is a serious issue, the amount of junk food they consume is obvious. They should also care about their love life, and stop hogging all of the dick donuts. Check…
PEOPLE CAN’T HAVE NOTHIN NICE THESE DAYS WITHOUT LA SHERIFF STEALING IT
I bought a brand new 2021 RAMBO its only 50cc’s which means its legal to ride without any class license. Top Speed 37mph holds 1 1/3 gallons of gas. I bought this over scooter for…
