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PA Prison Report - January 23, 2012
Submitted by rhaco on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 5:42amIn this edition:
Sexual harassment continues at SCI Pittsburgh despite recent charges against guards, student leads Guantanamo protesters to DC, Red Onion holds people in solitary for years, and more…
Beginning in this edition, a link to the Real Cost of Prisons Project (RCPP) web log maintained by Lois Ahrens has been added. The weblog has more extensive coverage of prison related news nationwide. Please refer to the link by the section heading “Across the Nation”.
PA Prison Report - January 16, 2012
Submitted by rhaco on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:23pmIn this edition: Retaliation and Physical Abuse at SCI-Dallas, DOC wants Mumia to cut his hair, Allegheny County settles with jail sex assault victim for $6,000 and more…
PA Prison Report - January 9, 2012 - Action Alert for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Submitted by rhaco on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 3:08pmIn this edition: Mumia Abu-Jamal held in "conditions more onerous than those on death row"; Murder conviction overturned after 16 years of a life sentence; CA reduces prison population by thousands and more…
PA Prison Report - December 26, 2011
Submitted by rhaco on Tue, 12/27/2011 - 10:43pmIn this edition: Jailhouse lawyer placed in cell with nooses, denied mental health care; Mother Denied Visit to Son in Solitary; New claims in lawsuit over pregnant woman who died in jail and more…
PA Prison Report - December 19, 2011
Submitted by amanda on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 10:09pmIn this edition: Family fears false write-ups and retaliation by guards is keeping their son in prison, U.S. Justice Department concludes investigation of racial profiling of immigrants used by Arizona sheriff’s department, and more…
PA Prison Report - December 12, 2011
Submitted by amanda on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 7:39pmIn this edition: Abuse and deprivation at Coal Township, prosecutors admit defeat in thirty year effort to impose death sentence on Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Pittsburgh prison guard held over for trial on more than 100 charges of raping, torturing, and abusing prisoners and more . . .
PA Prison Report December 5, 2011 Special Department of Justice Investigation Edition
Submitted by amanda on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 5:11pm In this edition:
The Department of Justice announces its investigation of two Pennsylvania prisons, attempted suicide and subsequent abuse at Allegheny County Jail where guard is also charged with attempted smuggling and more...
PA Prison Report - November 28, 2011
Submitted by rhaco on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:56amIn this edition: From State Pens to Penn State by Mumia Abu-Jaml and Abolition in Action in upstate New York. Click here to read them...
PA Prison Report - November 21, 2011
Submitted by rhaco on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 8:52amIn this edition: Prisoner finds razorblades in his food after filing grievances against guards, Six more guards arrested in SCI Pittsburgh abuse round up, Former hunger strikers in California prisons commit suicide, and more…
PA Prison Report - November 14, 2011
Submitted by rhaco on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 10:10pmIn this edition: Guards at Huntingdon encourage prisoner to commit suicide; Upcoming Free Mumia rally in December; Radio Program hosts Holiday show for family members of prisoners and more…
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