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Know What's HappeningSnake oil. Prayer beads. Shaman smoke. Laying on hands.... Inmates in Arizona prisons are denied necessary medical treatment, insists a lawsuit filed by American Friends (Quakers) and the Arizona ACLU. Instead, inmates are told that medical problems are "all in their heads" and that they should just pray about it. Remember when the Puritans drowned women, accused of witchcraft, and insisted that God would save the women if they prayed about it? God didn't step up to the bat on those, and apparently He's missing in the Arizona prison medical centers too. Let's hope the court can save these ill and desperate inmates; the prison system isn't about to. CCA says it's doing what is required under the law. Period.
Read the full article...December 5, 2013Last year, the Texas Parole Board shredded the contents of 86,000 packets, believing their contents had been scanned and filed electronically. Not so. Then, to cover the errors, they hired extra helpers, put in overtime, and tried to cover the errors. That cost tax payers, but not nearly as much as it cost the inmates, some of whom will now wait 3-5 years before their case is reviewed again. Both the Texas Inmate Families Association and the guards' union are calling for a re-do. They want the cases reviewed, and those who qualify released.
Read the full article...December 5, 2013New Mexico Police are taking searches to the extreme; first, last month's story of requiring a driver to have 4 anal probes at a hospital--because he clutched his buttocks in a routine traffic search. Doctors found nothing. Now, a story of the police using pepper spray on a woman's vagina during a jail search. At what point do the citizens of New Mexico scream, "Enough!"? It's time.
Read the full article...December 2, 2013We all know the prison industry rules. But what many do not know is how directly the Prison Industrial Complex takes money directly from our lives. As many as 65% of private prison contracts require our counties to pay for each cell as if it is occupied and costing the company money--even when that cell is empty. These contracts should be challenged at every level and then, perhaps, made illegal. As long as the taxpayer is involved, the county is responsible to us and our shrinking pocketbooks. This nonsense must stop.
Read the full article...December 1, 2013
