Sep 26 2008
New Report on the Expansion of the Prison Industrial Complex
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A new report by the Justice Policy Institute released yesterday details the proliferation of policing, immigration enforcement, and incarceration policies in the US over the last ten years. “Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex,†was written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the prison abolitionist group Critical Resistance. Among the …
A new report by the Justice Policy Institute released yesterday details the proliferation of policing, immigration enforcement, and incarceration policies in the US over the last ten years. “Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex,†was written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the prison abolitionist group Critical Resistance. Among the …
The United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported last month on how Palestinian children are not protected enough from the Israeli occupation and internal fighting in the occupied territories. Three hundred and eighty six Palestinian children have been killed as a result of violence this year already. Forty four children were …
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