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!

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

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/

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

"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

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

"California prison officials have known about the issue for months, but have failed to clear people’s records or reverse the consequences people have faced from the tests."

"Revealed: drug tests in California prisons yielded false positives, affecting thousands of people"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/california-prison-drug-tests

Interesting comparison between #China & the #USA.

China's #incarceration rate is nearly 80% lower than in the #US, & 32% lower than the world average.

Colonial carceral legacies
Incarceration and "military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures" for some

"A victim of crime advocacy group has quickly risen to prominence in Queensland and has been consulted on sweeping changes to youth justice laws."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/voices-for-victims-rise-to-prominence-queensland-government/105007040

"First Nations human rights experts lodge UN complaint over 'racist' tough-on-crime laws"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/un-urged-to-rule-on-australias-youth-crime-laws/105116196

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."
https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612

"NT government-funded security patrol caught on camera kicking man in the head"
"Military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nt-government-funded-security-guard-caught-on-camera-kicking-man/105060870

"Over 25 years on death row, Chris Duncan has relied on and benefited from the system Landry and his cohort are set to destroy."

Piper French for Bolts and Mother Jones: https://longreads.com/2025/03/26/the-human-cost-of-jeff-landrys-drive-to-resume-executions/

InCARceration is a free minigame "carlike experience" for parole breakers everywhere - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/incarceration-is-a-free-minigame-carlike-experience-for-parole-breakers-everywhere #VisualNovel&Dating; #InCARceration #RacingArcade #Comedy #Indie #PC

"Charging people in prison to communicate with the outside world has long been good business."

Katya Schwenk for The Lever‬: https://longreads.com/2025/03/21/the-succession-battle-for-a-prison-empire/

Today in Labor History March 20, 2000: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was arrested for murdering a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. Al-Amin had been a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers. He once said that “violence is as American as cherry pie.” Al-Amin denied shooting the deputy. His fingerprints were not found on the murder weapon. He had no gunshot wounds, though officers who were present at the shootout claimed that the suspect had been hit and wounded. Another man, Otis Jackson, later confessed to being the shooter, but the authorities have repeatedly denied Al-Amin’s requests for a retrial. He is now serving a life sentence. He had been at Florence supermax, under a gag order preventing interviews with journalists. In 2014, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He is now at the U.S. Penitentiary, Tucson. In April 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal from al-Amin.

Listen to this speech of mr. @georgetakei and check the links in the thread; it's happening again.

https://mastodon.social/@touaregtweet/112289297850597193

#WWII #history #America
#racism #Japan #incarceration #concentrationcamps #relocation #RohwerWarRelocationCenter #JeromeWarRelocationCenter

#Wealth and #education to be a determinant factor in #crime and #incarceration statistics. Well, blow me down. /sarc/

Here is an endorsment for the ‘separation of powers’ enjoyed in this country in full display. The lecture delivered by the #NT judge speaking truth to power.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/nt-judge-urges-rethink-on-how-to-reduce-crime/105015740

"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"

Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row

Canadian woman #incarcerated entering the country to go to a professional conference, despite holding all the appropriate paperwork.

And she's still there, eleven days later, in horrible conditions this country usually only reserves for the poor, the Black, and the brown.

The only upside here is that the improper #arrest of an attractive young white Canadian woman for imaginary #immigration violations might start to open some people's eyes.

#immigration #detention #Canada #resist #Ω #refugees #asylumseekers #tourists #incarceration #privateprisons #impeach47 #deportElon

https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman-detained-at-us-border-sent-to-arizona-detention-facility

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