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“In solitary confinement, many prisoners suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and psychosis that are exacerbated by prolonged isolation. Those suffering from schizophrenia and other mental diseases are target practice for the Tasers on a daily basis.” texasobserver.org/an-inside-lo

The Texas Observer · An Inside Look at Taser Use in Texas PrisonThe sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

Hmmm.... so the Govt's answer to extreme workloads for probation officers, is not to invest in more staff but rather to cut provision of rehabilitation programmes & lower the grade of staff that deal with sex offenders (in England & Wales).

This looks like yet another case of the Govt. knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing... the social costs of this sort of this sort of myopic politics are all too predictable!

#Prison #rehabilitation #politics

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The Guardian · Alarm at plan for less-qualified probation staff to deal with sex offenders in England and WalesBy Rajeev Syal

Jailhouse snitch testimony is considered a red flag by many legal experts. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 256 people who have been exonerated of felonies in the United States since 1989 were convicted in a case using jailhouse informant testimony. Sixteen were from #Texas. texasobserver.org/david-wood-e

The Texas Observer · David Wood, Set for Execution, Says He Was Never the 'Desert Killer'Wood’s attorneys have requested that more than 100 additional pieces of evidence be tested for DNA, but the state has opposed the request for over a decade. 
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American prisons run on forced labor. For @bolts, historian Robert Chase answered reader questions about the legal basis for paying incarcerated people below minimum wage, whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in these circumstances, who has the authority to stop prison labor, and more.

boltsmag.org/the-past-and-pres

Bolts · The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered - BoltsA historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.

This is an awful story of how the failure of simple technology (a broken intercom, an unused phone line) contributed to a woman's inability to get prison authorities to intervene when her husband seemed her (correctly) to be suicidal...

If you wanted an example of how cuts to maintenance budgets are not simple savings but can be lethal, this would be a fatal & awful case to cite.

Really, this country is just falling apart!

#prison #technology

theguardian.com/society/2025/f

The Guardian · Woman could not stop husband’s suicide in London prison due to broken intercomBy Nadeem Badshah
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Because #Trump had recently warned, “We are watching [Zuckerberg] closely, & if he does anything *illegal*” during Trump’s 2nd term, “he will spend the rest of his life in #prison,” this opportunity must have sounded enticing. #Zuckerberg indicated that he would not in any way obstruct Trump’s agenda, acc/to the Times, & foisted blame for any prior offenses onto subordinates.

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Most of the #oligarchs submitted, but those who didn’t went to #prison or into #exile, lest they fall prey to the country’s epidemic of window-plunging deaths. (Khodorkovsky was imprisoned, putatively for fraud & tax evasion, but really for supporting independent media & opposition parties.) Since then, affinity for #Putin has been a sine qua non of high-level economic success in Russia.

#USpol#law#Trump

How To Pump A Memecoin, 2025 Edition

1. get arrested for stealing pro #Israel yard signs
2. get sentenced to 8 months in prison
3. escape from prison
4. launch a memecoin
5. rug everyone for $50k
6. donate everything to Palestinian charities
7. go on the run from the law with an active twitter account and a firearm

never a dull day in crypto
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This sounds like an extraordinary memoir!

As a teenager, Tanya Smith stole bank reserves over the phone to help friends and neighbors pay off overdue utility bills. When the F.B.I. derided her, saying Black people "don’t have the brains" to pull off complex heists, she taught herself to hack computers and went on to steal tens of millions from banks and casinos in a multi-year crime spree

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Eva Wiseman's point about the prison system not being a suitable substitute for proper care for women who are mentally ill is absolutely right;

we have (like so many other aspects of our society) seemed to have returned to the C19th callousness & brutality while claiming there's no alternative.

There's alway an alternative, we just refuse it!

#prison #MentalHealth

theguardian.com/society/2025/f

The Guardian · Why are women still being sent to prison as ‘a place of safety’?By Eva Wiseman
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In New Jersey, there’s no legal mechanism for judges to take into account whether a defendant suffered abuse that may have been a factor in their committing a crime. Seventy-two percent of first-time offenders imprisoned for a violent crime in the state’s women’s prison were abused by their victim. While Governor Phil Murphy has granted clemency to some people, The ACLU of New Jersey and other groups are now advocating for a legislative fix. @bolts takes a look at the issue.

boltsmag.org/new-jersey-clemen

Bolts · For Abuse Survivors, a New Path to Release from New Jersey Prisons - BoltsIn 1999, Dawn Jackson took a plea deal and was sentenced to 30 years in a New Jersey prison for killing her step-grandfather, Robert McBride. As told in the New... Read More