Tag: prisons
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Sentenced to a life of poor health
Slim Philomath explains why attempts to reform health care in U.S. prisons have been inadequate to the task, which requires an interrogation of the entire carceral system.
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Fund services, not police and prisons!
A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.
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From below and to the left
These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.