Jesus fucking Christ.
#ThisCantBeReformed #AbolishPrisons
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Inmates in their underwear, their heads bowed and hands zip-tied, sit cross-legged facing the wall while jail guards in riot gear train laser-pointed pepper-ball guns at the backs of their heads.
Surveying the scene as he walks through the hallway, the jail’s superintendent doles out congratulatory fist bumps and back pats.
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Edited to add no-paywall link, thanks to @DavidM_yeg
https://archive.ph/qU5C0
Woman who spent 16 days in extreme solitary confinement sues federal government | CBC News
Torture. In our name.
"On suspicion", later proven false.
> she became suicidal
> she had a mental break in which she mumbled to herself, was unable to follow directions, rubbed her hands on her arms continuously, pulled at her hair and appeared "jumpy" and "scared at noises and sudden movements."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ns-woman-dry-cell-solitary-confinement-1.7486890?cmp=rss
Once again for the cheap seats and the comfortable liberals sitting in them, whatever you allow the state to do to prisoners, the state will eventually do to you. #AbolishPrisons
..and it will get worse with the new Bail laws in Victoria.
..and it'll get worse if Dutton gets in as pm.
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Rate of Indigenous people in jail has risen by 20% since 2019,
Closing the Gap data shows
New data reveals child protection, incarceration and suicide rates getting worse
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace
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see, this is something that's been on my mind lately... to call this modern american authoritarian movement "fascist" is inaccurate. It shares a few aesthetic similarities, shares some ideology, but calling it that gets the order of inheritance wrong. The fascists were inspired by America, not the other way around. Mussolini and Hitler looked up to the Americans, who could do what the Nazis couldn't: kill a hundred million people to their face, shooting or stabbing or strangling or drowning and raping their women and children (the Germans couldn't stomach that, hence the gas chambers). To fold fascist ideology back into that creates a synthesis, not an evolution. America isn't fascist, it's foundation is a settler-colonial slave nation, and any authoritarian swing will tend towards those roots. Of course it only makes sense that our modern authoritarian swing would dig deep into our roots as a nation built on slavery.
An inmate on suicide-watch was dead in his cell for six hours before he was found. His family still doesn’t know how he died
“The top line recommendation of that inquest was for the province to recognize that corrections is not an adequate place for someone living with mental illness,”
Kyriakos Xymitris Always Present
2024
#kyriakosxymitiris #abolishprisons #politicalposter #berlinposter
Silvester am Knast - gegen Gefängnisse und in Solidarität mit Gefangenen
„Gestern, am 31. Dezember 2024 demonstrierten in Berlin ca. 300 Menschen gegen Gefängnisse und in Solidarität mit Gefangenen rund um die JVA Moabit. Dort wird der Antifaschist Nanuk in Untersuchungshaft gehalten. Über ihn und andere Antifas, die im sog. "Budapest Komplex" angeklagt sind, wurde berichtet. Auch der kämpfende Gefangene Andreas Krebs aus der JVA beteiligte sich mit einem Grußwort. Weitere Beiträge beschäftigten sich mit der Situation von Andrea Klette in der JVA Vechta, einer Gefangenen in der JVA Lichtenberg, Gefangenen in Griechenland und den USA etc. Wir waren mit dem Mikrofon vor Ort und berichten in O-Tönen…“
Prisoners (those that know what they're about, anyway) appreciate these demonstrations!
https://kolektiva.social/@collectif15mars/113716004229002833
More than 90% of people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs criminalised in NSW despite diversion reforms
A New South Wales government program that gives police discretion to divert people found with small quantities of illicit drugs away from the courts has only been extended to 6.9% of people caught, including just 2.6% of those who are Indigenous.
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #Criminology #CriminalJustice
“On September 15th, 2024, a tragic, horrifying event took place at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison—an event that highlights the unbearable conditions incarcerated individuals face every day. In a recent radio essay, Kevin Rashid Johnson reports that Econ, and his cellmate Trayvon Brown set themselves on fire, hoping to escape the intolerable racism, abuse, and inhumane conditions they were subjected to. Econ suffered third-degree burns; his cellmate’s injuries were even worse.
These are not isolated acts. In a span of just two weeks, a dozen Black men at Red Onion took the same desperate measures, setting themselves ablaze. These are not acts of protest. These are human beings driven to extreme lengths, simply hoping for relief from their torment.”
Self Immolation at Red Onion State #Prison
https://www.prisonradio.org/news-update/self-immolation-at-red-onion-state-prison/
I'm shocked. 
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No adverse findings from probe triggered by NT police tactical group’s offensive ‘awards’
Corruption watchdog rules out further investigation into racism within the force despite evidence of historical racial discrimination
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #RegionalAustralia #RuralAustralia #NTPol #NT
So, nurses and midwives ask for 15% and get told no. Meanwhile cops get offered 40%.
#AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Nurses #nursing #NSWNMA #Union #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace
Watching more people crying about those two police dogs that were killed being left in the back of a locked cop car, than ever said shit about the Ngaanyatjarra Elder and Culture Man who was literally cooked to death in the back of a prison transport van in 2008.
Knäste töten - Nieder mit 41-bis
Alfredo Cospito, Genosse und Anarchist, wurde im April 2012 zu lebenslänglicher Haft ohne Bewährung verurteilt. Seitdem sitzt er im Gefängnis und befindet sich seit Mai 2022 in #Italien in #Isolationshaft. Davon verbrachte er sechs Monate im Hungerstreik, um auf die desaströsen Zustände des Artikels 41-bis Regimes aufmerksam zu machen.
Bereits seit der Einführung des 41-bis Regimes 1986 gibt es zahlreiche Aufschreie aus Menschenrechtsorganisationen wie Amnesty International. Befürworter des 41-bis Regimes drängten den damaligen Justizminister Italiens jegliche Korrensbondez von Gefangenen mit Menschenrechtsorganisationen, Strafverteidiger*innen und dem Europäischen Gerichthofs zu zensieren....
Mehr zur unmenschlichen Behandlung unter #41bis in welcher sich Alfredo bis heute befindet:
[white men's opinions not wanted]
About 5 years ago one of my lecturers set up a meeting for me with an academic who had just started working at my university.
He was a criminological researcher doing a big project on sex workers, and she (my lecturer) thought we'd get along academically and I might possibly be interested in him as my eventual phd supervisor or something..
We had a chat over the course of about an hour, mostly about his research, but he asked at one point what I was thinking with regards to a phd topic.
At the time I was interested in looking at the incidence of sexual abuse within the police force, so I set out my argument to him:
We know that there is a much higher incidence of domestic violence perpetrated by police against their partners and kids.
We know that people reporting DV aren't taken seriously by the police they're reporting to, often to the extent where they are given misinformation like 'we can't act unless he actually *does* something'.
We know that people reporting sexual assault are often not taken seriously as well,and are often given misinformation like 'rape is actually really hard to prove, are you sure you want to report this?'.
...i wonder if there is a higher incidence of people with a history of perpetuating sexual assault in the police force?
...i wonder if they commit those assaults while in the police force, or if the job attracts people with that history?
Using the questionnaire from the Lisek & Miller study and the McWhorter study, I could survey students in a number of different fields and see if there is a higher number of people doing policing who self-report having used these rape-behaviors.
I could also do a follow up on the same students (although I'm not sure how because having the study not be anonymous would confound results) to see if their responses change after being in the police force for a number of years.
..he just looked at me and said that he doubted there was a higher incidence of DV perpetuated by police, and that he was certain that the reports that happened are angry partners targeting those cops with vexatious reports because they know it'll have big consequences for their careers.. and shut down the entire conversation immediately.
He's a critical criminologist, and wasn't interested in even having the slightest bit of curiosity about police being violent.
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"When she reported to police that he would repeatedly call her and hang up – an action she felt breached the apprehended domestic violence order she had taken out against him – she says an officer told her she was being a “vexatious ex-spouse” who was trying to cause trouble."
#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #NoJusticeNoPeace #DomesticViolence #GenderedViolence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAW #Academia #Uni #university #Criminology #CriminalJustice
Put them in a coffin’: could debate over Queensland’s ‘youth crime crisis’ take a dangerous turn?
While data suggests youth crime rates are at near-record lows, it’s become a totemic issue in the election campaign and that has Indigenous academics worried
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #QLD #QLDPol #AusPol #Criminology #CriminalJustice #politics #policing #Youth #YouthCrime #JuvenileJustice #MoralPanic
