At the beginning of February, the U.S. and Salvadoran governments struck a deal allowing the former to ship detained migrants to the latter’s brutal CECOT prison. @TexasObserver’s Orlando J. Perez examines the human and economic repercussions of this scheme, both now and for the future. “The longer the United States bankrolls and applauds this ‘iron fist’ illusion, the faster that illusion will spread across a region already battered by insecurity and disillusionment with democracy,” he writes. “Ultimately, sacrificing the rule of law for a made-for-TV spectacle is a devil’s bargain. It may offer momentary political gain, but it leaves behind broken families, weakened institutions, and a more dangerous hemisphere for everyone.”

https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-offshoring-justice-el-salvador/

#TrumpAdministration #ElSalvador #CECOT #Immigration #Incarceration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closed more than 60 years ago and was reopened as a museum in 1973. It now attracts more than one million visitors a year. On May 4, President Donald Trump announced that he'd like to reopen it as a prison that would "house America's most ruthless and violent Offenders." Here's @time's story on the history of Alcatraz, why it closed in 1963, and some of the early responses to Trump's proposal.

https://flip.it/HSqKSI

#Alcatraz #History @histodons #HIstodons #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration #Incarceration

"Opened in 1902 beside the Kentish village of Borstal, now swallowed up by the town of Rochester, it’s the sort of place you’d expect Miss Trunchbull to be nutting about in, terrorising the kids with maniacal joy." —Georgia Brown for The Fence

https://www.the-fence.com/borstal-boys/?src=longreads

#longreads #prison #borstal #incarceration #nonfiction #writing

"Since taking office, the #TrumpAdministration has taken actions to eviscerate #DueProcess and the rule of law, make #prison and jail conditions worse, expand the use of extreme sentences and harsh law enforcement tactics, eliminate oversight, undermine solutions that reduce #incarceration and make communities safer, and much more." https://www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltracker.html

Seeking to fulfill his campaign promises, #Trump is moving full steam ahead with a multilayered #detention expansion plan, which, if realized, will triple #ICE #incarceration capacity, enabling it to detain an additional 84,000 people at any given time.

https://buff.ly/T2SW8GF

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #JDVance #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist

Trump’s appointment of William K. Marshall III as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is a glaring example of placing politics over public safety.

Marshall lacks any federal corrections experience and is steeped in controversy from his tenure in West Virginia. Under his leadership at the West Virginia Department of Corrections, the system faced lawsuits alleging inhumane conditions, including lack of access to water and food, overcrowding, and unchecked violence. A federal judge noted intentional destruction of records related to these allegations. Despite these issues, Marshall has now been elevated to oversee the entire federal prison system.

This appointment disregards the Bureau’s tradition of promoting experienced insiders and raises serious concerns about the future management of federal prisons. #uspol #prison #bureauofprisons #incarceration

🔗 The Marshall Project: What to Know About William Marshall: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/12/billy-marshall-facts-trump-federal-prisons
🔗 BOP Official Announcement: https://www.bop.gov/news/20250428-deputy-ag-blanche-swears-in-william-k-marshall-iii.jsp
🔗 AP News: Lawsuit on West Virginia Jail Conditions Settled: https://apnews.com/article/b9c27a1937b5f2d97d860fa206dfccba

Les outils d'évaluation de risque viennent encore améliorer nos chances.

Une étude explicite le biais judiciaire automatisé :
➤ L'évaluation des risques réduit la probabilité d'incarcération des accusé·es plus aisé·es,
➤ L'évaluation des risques augmente la probabilité d'incarcération des accusé·es plus pauvres.

États-Unis (2020) https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000360

#efficacité #éthique #condamnations #jugement #violenceDÉtat #sociologie #droit #droitPublic #droitPénal #responsabilité #biaisJudiciaire #Justice #incarcération #inégalités #discriminations #racismeDÉtat #racismeSystémique #biais #jugement #racialisation #réputation #dominations #santéMentale

April 26, 2025 will be the 12th annual Independent Bookstore Day.

In observance, a generous donor will support both independent bookstores AND incarcerated readers by matching up to $1,000 in purchases from each of these wishlists:

Politics and Prose: https://politics-prose.com/wishlist/rocliswawresp

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/a641ac4a61f8bc1f8a0da919f50c47ed25c4abfa

The match will apply to all purchases made from April 21st to May 5th, 2025!

#IndieBookstoreDay #IndependentBookstoreDay #Bookstodon #BooksToPeopleInPrison #books #incarceration

You will never hear an anarchist say that she or he "served" their time in prison - it is so lame and cringeworthy to hear others who've spant their lives doing their utmost evading the law, fighting the establishment on every front, often themselves otherwise hardened or brutal - to then misuse and simply in an indoctrinated manner then regurgitate the term '"served". #incarceration

#ElSalvador #president Nayib Bukele’s performative #incarceration of #deportees appeals to the #Trump administration's appetite for the lurid
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/partners-in-crime/

I enthusiastically and unreservedly advocate for the #dueprocess rights of #KilmarAbregoGarcia to be restored. The goal of my advocacy is to see Mr. Garcia afforded his #rights by any legal means necessary.

Furthermore, I openly and passionately criticize and condemn this administration, and each individual member of the executive branch involved with the planning, execution, or legal defense of Mr. Abrego Garcia’s illegal removal, and I deeply hope that all such individuals will promptly be removed from office by any legal means necessary.

In addition, I vigorously advocate for the use of non-violent #civildisobedience in defense of Mr. Abrego Garcia and any and all individuals facing illegal #incarceration and/or removal by any government agency or agent.

Finally, I strongly urge Herr Kaiser Gorka to go fuck himself, and I double-dog dare this administration to attempt to charge me with any crime or civil offense in relation to this post.

https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3lmxzi56ms22j

"Jones says that he was acting at the direction of his 16-year-old uncle and his uncle’s girlfriend in 1998 when he took part in the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl who lived in their neighborhood." —Phillip Vance Smith II for Bolts Magazine

https://boltsmag.org/north-carolina-juvenile-life-sentences/

#incarceration #prisonreform #northcarolina

A prison stay pushes an obsession with water to the brink in our powerful new #longreads essay.

https://longreads.com/2025/04/15/climate-change-water-prison-ocd/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#OCD #climate #anxiety #prison #incarceration

"In a stunning #WhiteHouse appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, #democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald #Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib #Bukele openly defied a Supreme Court order while discussing plans to expand #ElSalvador’s notorious detention system to imprison US citizens without due process. The meeting, which came just days after Trump admitted the US could retrieve #AbregoGarcia from unlawful detention in El Salvador, devolved into the two leaders joking about imprisoning anyone while promoting a chilling vision of “#liberation through #incarceration.”"

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/trump-bukele-plot-us-citizen-detention-in-salvadoran-torture-camps-while-defying-supreme-court-via-gibberish-responses-to-reporters/

Washington state’s so-called “sanctuary law” is in the crosshairs of elected officials. But new data from the state’s department of corrections shows, even when the state works with federal immigration enforcement, the federal government isn’t always following through.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-sanctuary-law-immigration-customs-enforcement-detain-deportation
#KUOW #News #Crime #Government #Politics #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #DonaldTrump #Incarceration #Immigration

Mandela Lock

https://kiko.io/photos/24-12-Suedafrika-0476-D50

#PrisonArt #CellBlock #BlackAndWhite #LockedUp #Incarceration #Jailhouse #PrisonLife #Monochrome #BehindBars #LifeInPrison

Revolut°Permanente🚩 Incarcération de Christian Tein : la Cour de cassation valide les méthodes coloniales de l'Etat français 🚩RP #Incarcération #ChristianTein #Colonialisme #Autodétermination #Kanaky

Incarcération de Christian Tei...

Revolut°Permanente🚩 Incarcération de Christian Tein : la Cour de cassation valide les méthodes coloniales de l'Etat français: Mardi 8 avril, la plus haute juridiction française a confirmé l'incarcération en métropole de Christian Tein, militant indépendantiste de la CCAT, à plus de 17 000 km de chez lui. Une décision qui légitime les méthodes coloniales de l'Etat français pour réprimer la lutte… https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Incarceration-de-Christian-Tein-la-Cour-de-cassation-valide-les-methodes-coloniales-de-l-Etat?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon 🚩RP #Incarcération #ChristianTein #Colonialisme #Autodétermination #Kanaky