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Lincoln Ware

Dec 9, 2011 at 9:49 am

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Mother Awarded $3.5 Million For Son’s Prison Death

New York will pay $3.5 million to a mother whose son died when two prison aides violently restrained him at the former Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, NY in 2006.

According to the lawsuit, Darryl Thompson stopped breathing and died shortly after prison workers failed to respond to his pleas for help.

The agreement, approved last week by a U.S. District Judge, awards

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Lincoln Ware

Nov 28, 2011 at 1:56 pm

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Fatal Beating Of Inmate By Guards Reveals Brutal Prison Culture

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-24-year-old, Rocrast Mack, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard.

Mack was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old.

The Huffington Post reports:

Severely overcrowded, underfunded and understaffed, the state’s prisons have become incubators of disturbing levels of inmate-on-inmate violence, according to prisoner advocacy and

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Lincoln Ware

Nov 21, 2011 at 12:40 pm

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America, A Country Of Inmates

With 2.3 million people behind bars, America leads the world in incarceration. The U.S. prison population has more than doubled in the past 15 years.

Despite the fact that African Americans and Latino Americans are less than 30% of the country, they comprise more than 60% of its inmates.

The New York Times reports:

Proportionally, the United States has four times as

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T.I. Cleans Up His Act on ‘The View’

T.I. shares more of his life lessons, introduces his latest project (a fiction novel) and joins an intimate discussion about changing directions with the ladies of ‘The View.’

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Amanda Knox Found Not Guilty

Amanda Knox is released from prison after facing a 26-year sentence in association with the brutal sex murder of another woman in Perugia, Italy.

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Big Business Or Slave Labor? What Prisoners Make In Jail

If you thought slavery or human exploitation was over, think again.

Many human rights organizations are condemining what they call human slavery in which Wall Street investors and big companies are investing in the prison industry as they don’t have to worry about strikes, vacations, compensation time or unemployment insurance. They dont have to deal with sicknesses or lateness. Many of these prisoners are threatened with solitary confinement if they refuse to

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