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Georgia prisoners’ strike: ‘We locked ourselves down’
by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway Rodriques Dukes, a prisoner in the Isolation Unit at Hays State Prison, peers out of his cell. Hays is known as one of Georgia’s “toughest,” according to National...
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Prisoners demand ‘our human rights’
by Dianne Mathiowetz Atlanta – According to reports from family members and prisoner rights advocates, thousands of incarcerated men throughout Georgia engaged in a coordinated strike starting Dec. 9....
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Georgia prisoners’ strike: What would Dr. King say or do?
Community coalition meets with Georgia corrections officials, visits first prison by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon with assistance from Ingemar Smith “The prisoners have done all they can do now....
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Medical neglect stalks Georgia prisons
by Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Can’t breathe? Crushing chest pains creeping up the side of your neck? See a doctor? In prison? Don’t bet on it. Arnold Porter was serious, and...
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Georgia prison system retaliates against prisoners involved in historic protest
The Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoner Rights held a press conference on Jan. 6, 2011, to discuss the physical assaults perpetrated on inmates by prison staff. The attacks took place in the wake...
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Arrested Georgia correctional officer oversaw vicious beating of prisoner ‘in...
by Bruce A. Dixon A Georgia prisoner advocate at a Jan. 6 press conference holds a poster showing beaten prisoners. – Photo: Kristi E. Swartz, AJC.com Three months after inmate protests at multiple...
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There is no justice in Georgia
Macon State Prison is a maximum security prison in Oglethorpe, Ga. I am an inmate at Macon State Prison in Oglethorpe, Georgia. This is a Level 5 prison and as hard as any in the penal system. Prior...
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Georgia prisons ‘out of control,’ rights group says, as FBI brutality probe...
by John Rudolf This is Terrance Dean, 31, before his near-fatal beating. He is seen by prison officials as a leader in the historic Dec. 9, 2010, sit-down strike by thousands of Georgia prisons from...
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Video released of Georgia guards beating prisoners with hammer
by Mary Ratcliff At the beginning of this video, you hear a prison guard shouting, “”Get down! Just get down! Get down! Get down!” presumably to the other prisoners. That exclamation is followed by,...
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To all the homies on lock and solitary
by Abdul Mujahid Khalil, aka Lester Smith In response to the story, “California can lead the movement to limit solitary confinement,” by Margaret Winter of the ACLU in the November Bay View, well,...
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