FBI documents reveal secret nationwide Occupy monitoring
by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its...
View ArticlePrison-wide hunger strike still rages at Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington Three weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo,” in which I reported the stories emerging from Guantánamo of a prison-wide hunger strike, the most...
View ArticleYasiin Bey (Mos Def) force-feeding video launches campaign to support...
Yasiin Bey appears in a video launched today demonstrating the standard operating procedure for force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. Made by human rights charity Reprieve and...
View ArticleBeard must go: California needs a fresh start in Corrections, not a cover-up...
by Jonathan Simon When Gov. Brown appointed Jeffrey Beard to be the new secretary of Corrections in California last year, it was supposed to signal a new era. After decades of correctional leaders who...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Committee finds US in violation on 25 counts
by Adam Hudson While President Obama told the country to “look forward, not backward” when it came to Bush’s torture program, the United Nations has taken a different route. Recently, the U.N. Human...
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