Solitary confinement

Essentially she is now being tortured as punishment for an act of desperation.
— Nancy Hollander, lawyer for Chelsea Manning, September 24, 2016

Their sons ignore you; a fire warms them and sheds light around them, and you have not lit it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

September 9th is fast approaching- a day that stands out in the celebrated history of domestic resistance against official State terror and institutional slavery in this country. On that day in 1971 thousands of prisoners entombed in an upstate prison in rural New York, perhaps the worst in the United States at the time, said enough as they seized Attica. They said no to slave wages, no to physical abuse and no to psychological torture; they demanded improved living conditions, medical treatment, religious freedom and educational and training opportunities.

In late May and early June, Chicago group Voices for Creative Nonviolence held a 150-mile walk against indefinite detention, solitary confinement, and the racist U.S. prison system. For two weeks, a group of 20 justice seekers walked across the state of Illinois from east to west, interacting with hundreds of passers-by, carrying placards to give a momentary reminder to thousands of motorists, and holding public face-to-face discussions at churches and libraries.

Nebraska is a bad state to be a troubled youth in America.
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On Monday, June 8, 2015, US District Court Judge James Brady ruled that the Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox be both immediately released and barred from a retrial. The next day, at the request of the Louisiana Attorney General, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay of release set to expire on Friday, June 12.

Rasmea Odeh has been in total segregation, locked up for twenty-three and a half hours a day. She is not allowed to receive visitors or mail, speak to other prisoners, or use the commissary.

One of this writer’s earliest articles was titled “The US Gulag Prison System: The Shame of the Nation and Crime Against Humanity”.
Around half of all inmates are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses. Half of those are drug related, mostly simple possession.  Just societies call these offenses misdemeanors, punishable by warnings and/or small fines. Imprisonments are rare and never long term.
America’s gulag is world’s largest, one of its harshest. Blacks and Latinos suffer most. So do Muslims. Guilty of being in America at the wrong time. Scapegoated unjustly.

This past July, students from Northwestern University’s Medill Justice Project visited the infamous Louisiana State Prison known as Angola.