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By Stop Prison Profiteering
Mar 08, 2019
Mar 08, 2019
By Prison Ecology Project
Dec 07, 2018
Dec 07, 2018
By Panagioti Tsolkas / Prison Legal News After more than three years of a controversial environmental review process for the proposed USP Letcher, conducted by the Bureau of Prisons and their consulting firm Cardno, lawyers filed a lawsuit in November 2018 on behalf of 21 federal prisoners spread across the country. Plaintiffs in the case […]
By Prison Ecology Project
Sep 08, 2018
Sep 08, 2018
This week, a global climate justice convergence in San Francisco will coincide with the national prison strike. Alongside the Prison Ecology Project and Fight Toxic Prisons, Nation Inside’s #StopTheHeat Campaign has been drawing connections between these movements, and now it’s time to turn it up a notch. In recent years, prisoners across the country having been decrying chronic abuse due […]
By Campaign for Prison Phone Justice
Aug 31, 2018
Aug 31, 2018
By #StopTheHeat – End Abusive Conditions in Prisons
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018
Merging Movements to Bring Climate Justice, Abolish ICE and End Prison Slavery TAKE ACTION NOW! Larry McCollum was supposed to return home to his family after serving a two-year sentence for passing a bad check. Instead, he died of heatstroke in Hutchins State Jail near Dallas, Texas. McCollum spent his last moments trapped in an […]
By Prison Ecology Project
Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018
In July of this year, former prisoners and their family members raised concerns about a variety of prison issues at a hearing with state lawmakers. This included repeated concerns with water quality at multiple facilities. One former prisoner stated that water in the East Arkansas Unit was not even “fit to take a shower in.” […]
By Prison Ecology Project
May 29, 2018
May 29, 2018
By Prison Ecology Project
Jan 14, 2018
Jan 14, 2018
By Prison Ecology Project
Sep 07, 2017
Sep 07, 2017
Two years ago, the concept of Prison Ecology was introduced to the world, building off the work of jailhouse lawyers, scholars and activists around the country. On many occasions spanning the last 4 decades of the prison boom (in which prisoner populations increased by 700%), prisoners and their advocates had noted environmental concerns in local […]
By Prison Ecology Project
Jun 14, 2017
Jun 14, 2017
Over the past week, the Prison Ecology Project, the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons and our allies have been reviewing the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed 2018 budget and listening in on budget hearings in D.C. After three steady years of our nationwide grassroots organizing, including a march to the doorsteps of the DOJ last […]