The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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No More Crime and Punishment: The National Prison Strike of 2018, Part I
Depending how you look at it, our country's prison system is either a raging success – helping line the pockets of prison investors and those gaining from cheap prison labor – or a total failure.
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An Inside Account of the National Prisoners’ Strike
Wages for incarcerated workers are typically cents per hour, and several states—Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and South Carolina—use prisoner labor without paying them at all.
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National Prison Strike Demands An End to Slave Labor
While past prison strikes haven’t always gained much attention, this action – focusing on ending indentured, low-paid work by prisoners – is yielding different results.
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45 Years After Attica Uprising, Prisoners Are Rebelling Again
Last month, inmates across the country embarked on what organizers have called the largest prison strike in U.S. history, an ambitious mass protest against prison labor and inhumane prison conditions.
