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Research and links on the prison industrial complex ... Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong.
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www.prisonsucks.com/
www.prisonsucks.com/
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category: prison conditions ... Challenging Prison Conditions ... Most Popular prison conditions Posts...
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criminaljustice.change.org/blog/category/prison_conditi...
criminaljustice.change.org/blog/category/prison_conditions
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From March 6 to March 11, nearly 150 political prisoners from Gaza went on hunger strike to protest prison conditions. ... The Occupied Territories Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996, released by the US Department of State on January 30, 1997, defined the prison conditions in Israel as poor.
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www.phrmg.org/monitor1997/may97-7.htm
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Only three states -- New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois -- have independent commissions charged with reporting on prison conditions, and they lack authority to impose reforms, the commission said. No mandatory national standards exist for prisons, many of which are now run by private contractors.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Mar1....
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Mar1.html
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We endeavor to be as accurate as possible, but not to be impartial. Our audience is the whole world. Everyone should know what the American prison system and "justice" system are really like.
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www.prisoners.com/
www.prisoners.com/
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An inmate suicide has put the spotlight on squalid conditions at prisons operated by a private company. ... Scot Noble Payne committed suicide in March, seven months after he was sent to a squalid Texas prison where conditions allegedly were unbearable.
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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19638219/
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We again call on you to take immediate steps to honor the state's obligation under U.S. constitutional and international human rights law to ensure safe and humane prison conditions and adequate medical services to protect the lives and health of people in state custody.
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hrw.org/english/docs/2005/02/28/usdom10223.htm
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(A) Prospective relief in any civil action with respect to prison conditions shall extend no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right of a particular plaintiff or plaintiffs.
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www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/3626.shtml
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