Tag: Prisons

In Ohio, where Aramark is contracted to provide food to state prisons, the corporation seems more interested in profit than the safety and health of prisoners.

Ohio’s reliance on for-profit prisons shows that slavery has never ended in America. Prisons have always been about herding, investing in, and marketing chattel for a profit.

In unnaturally small prison cells, it’s common for prisoners’ eyesight to degrade due to a lack of stimulation, distance, and depth. It begs the question: which other senses does confinement diminish? To what degree? Do they come back?

How prisoners helped stop the construction of a new prison camp in Kentucky

“Prison reform” is an empty promise from politicians and corrections departments who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

In a world without prisons, we could break the vicious cycle of generational poverty, trauma, and incarceration.

Women have struggled to get what little we have in prison – but the COVID pandemic has stripped even that away.

Correctional officers don’t help “correct” prisoners – most of them simply create an environment that’s toxic for both prisoners and other staff.

Living on remand, it’s important to know how to fight for your rights when the justice system breaks its own rules.

Surviving a COVID outbreak inside a federal prison

No bullet, no sword, nor anything formed, / nothing short of a category 4 storm, / Could ever kill an Indian that’s immortal

Elderly prisoners need health care, not incarceration.

Why punitive, coercive, and obedience-based drug treatment programs in prison don’t work.

On reverse onus and colonial justice

The colonial economics of incarceration

Prisons cause irreparable harm to the people inside them. Destroy the system before it can destroy more lives.

Governments criminalize poor people, and then allow companies to exploit prisoners’ basic needs for profit.

Roughly 10 members of the editorial collective – comprised of Inreach and Free Lands Free Peoples members, and Briarpatch staff – have met every two weeks since April to shape this special issue.

Drug prohibition in prisons is a dangerous farce that generates violence, overdoses, and corruption.

From March 2020 to March 2021 there were more than 21 hunger strikes in Canadian prisons. Briarpatch looks back on a year of prisoner rebellions during COVID and what they won.