This week, we continue to air urgent messages from people on the impact of the coronavirus on prisoners around the world and closer to home. We start off with a call from a prisoner at Waupun Correctional, in Wisconsin, where an outbreak of COVID-19 has been reported. We share a statement from someone in Brazil…
Read MoreWe are completing our series on Brazilian prisons by airing an interview between Beny and Rosângela, who wanted to discuss her experiences with health care there. Her account of deprivation of care, along with the over application of psychiatric drugs, will be familiar to anyone who has spent time inside an American prison. She likewise…
Read MoreThis week, we have the first of several interviews that were conducted this fall in São Paulo, Brazil. Kite Line contributor Micol Seigel was there to teach a course on American prison history at the state university. Seigel’s academic host introduced her to an activist civil servant at the Secretariat of Penal Administration, who connected…
Read MoreRT @outlivethemnyc: All eyes on Rikers, where brave incarcerated people are on hunger strike to protest horrific conditions forced on them.…
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RT @OaklandAboSol: COVID-19 has infected 453 incarcerated people and 68 staff. >⅓ of the jail has been tested in the past week > 30% of th…
Read MoreRT @OaklandAboSol: Stop price gouging prisoners! All commissary prices were increased on December 27, 2021. Potato chips raised from 1.39…
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