Prison Industrial Complex Archives – The Real News Network

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Rattling the Bars

‘Second look’ bills offer a chance at freedom to longtime prisoners

by Mansa Musa March 4, 2024March 5, 2024

Maryland’s proposed Second Look Act would create new pathways to freedom for incarcerated people who’ve served at least 20 years in prison.

Inmates at the State Penitentiary, Limestone Correctional Center, Limestone, Alabama, August 1995. Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images

Rattling the Bars

Prisoners, unions sue Alabama, alleging ‘modern-day slavery’

by Mansa Musa February 26, 2024February 27, 2024

Rattling the Bars

This is why coming home from prison is so difficult for so many

by Mansa Musa February 19, 2024February 29, 2024

Prisoner Behind Bars of Cell. Photo by Steven Puetzer via Getty Images

Rattling the Bars

Wisconsin’s prison lockdowns: No visitors, few showers, and no end in sight

by Mansa Musa January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

Inmate at the South Bay House of Correction joins Ferguson grand jury protestors outside with their hands-up gestures as they protest on the entrance road to I-93 near Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Mass. Nov. 25, 2014. Photo by John Blanding/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

The Chris Hedges Report

50 years of mass incarceration has devastated American society and countless lives

by Chris Hedges December 15, 2023December 18, 2023

21 December 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bielefeld: A Christmas tree stands in the hallway of a prison. Every year, there is a Christmas amnesty in some correctional facilities. Photo by Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images

Rattling the Bars

For incarcerated people, the holidays are a reminder of captivity

by Mansa Musa December 4, 2023December 4, 2023

Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina cover streets 30 August, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by POOL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Rattling the Bars

Malik Rahim: Climate justice and the prisoners’ struggle go together

by Mansa Musa November 27, 2023November 27, 2023

The back of a uniformed police officer wearing a vest that reads "New Orleans Police"

Rattling the Bars

New Orleans wants to expand a city jail—these former prisoners say no

by Mansa Musa November 20, 2023November 20, 2023

Transgender inmate, Jarvis "Lady Jae" Clark, before the start of the show, as inmates inside San Quentin State Prison prepare to perform Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar as seen on Fri. May 15, 2015, in San Rafael, Calif. Photo By Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Rattling the Bars

Prisons are putting trans inmates in solitary confinement rather than appropriate housing

by Mansa Musa November 13, 2023November 13, 2023

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Rattling the Bars

Baton Rouge cops tortured detainees at ‘Brave Cave’ black site

by Mansa Musa November 6, 2023November 7, 2023