Tag: prisons

COVID Clemency Call to Action on February 1st “Freedom Day”
[UPDATES: Check out the Feb 1st COVID Clemency Caravan and Day of Action organizing and media kit to start plugging in; use the event page in this link to invite your network and communicate with others. Can’t make it to DC? Check out this call for decentralized actions] ————————————————————- As a new administration enters the White […]
Another Prison Suicide
State police are investigating the death of an Arkansas prisoner that appears to be a suicide.
New Prison Phone Rates To Go Into Effect March 17, 2016
As of March 17, 2016 all prisons, jails and detention facilities will need to lower their rates according to the FCC’s rules.
Fourth suicide in four months at East Arkansas Prison
The 27-year-old Clark County man found hanging in his cell by a sheet on November 24th. is the fourth suicide in four months in the East Arkansas Brickeys Prison Unit operated by the Arkansas Department of Correction.
‘We Agree on the Bigger Issue’
A three-day conference, called “Advancing Justice: An Agenda for Human Dignity & Public Safety,” was billed by one of its organizers as “transideological.” The two governors who spoke at the conference – Democrat Jack Markell from Delaware and Republican Asa Hutchinson from Arkansas – did not come armed with press releases about new policies that they would be implementing.
Another Suicide In Arkansas Prison
The Arkansas Department of Correction says a 37 year old prisoner has died of an apparent hanging. This marks the 3rd. reported suicide since August at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Marianna.
Second Death As Possible Suicide
Second suicide at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys is being investigated by the Arkansas State Police in less than two months
Prison Rape Elimination Act ~ In Jeopardy
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Why are lawmakers considering restrictions to the federal law designed to help prevent prison rape? Associated Press
A Challenge
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We know that Nation Inside is a tool to carry our message and your message far beyond what could ever be done on our own! We challenge you to use it too…. Its really quite easy … it connects us to work as one for the nation of men and women incarcerated… until the prison nation inside no longer exists.