Posts Tagged ‘Prison’
Islam in Prison
Islam in American Prisons takes a close look at the pattern of conversion to Islam among inmates in American prisons. The book states that prisoners looking for some form of redemption often turn to religion, and specifically Islam.
Islam in American Prisons is available for purchase on Amazon.
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Warden
…I’d tell them that I’d be back a little before six. This was never a surprise. They knew what six meant. Most of them had had years to think about it.
-Excerpt from Warden by Jim Willet
Jim Willett has presided over 89 legal executions, more than any man alive. Warden is Willett’s account of working in Texas prisons. Using his own journals, Willett recalls big events and small details that make up the fabric of his prison career. Warden is available for purchase on Amazon.
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Trust and Transformation: From Prison to Acceptance
Tamara Perkins, a volunteer film director/producer, investigates incarceration issues going on at San Quentin prison.
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They Don’t Care About Us
This is the prison version of the music video for Michael Jackson’s “The Don’t Care About Us” in which stock footage of historic civil and human rights violence are juxtaposed with images of Jackson, a prisoner, in a cafeteria filled with prisoners banging their fists and chanting along with him. The video begins with school girls singing the lyrics behind a wired fence and ends with images of Jackson running up steps in an ally, not in prison. Jackson chooses lyrics that apply to a vast group of people instead of focusing on his own personal experiences suggesting a general mistreatment of all people by the powers that be.
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4000 Prisoners Escape Haiti’s Prison
The earthquake that struck Haiti has devastated homes and leveled roads. It also destroyed Haiti’s main prison, allowing 4000 prisoners to escape. CNN’s Anderson Cooper visits the prison in Port au Prince. View here.
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Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder
Across the United States, violent crime in prison is an everyday reality, with inmates routinely exposed to assault, riot, rape and murder. Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder examines the culture of institutionalized violence through the events that led to one brutal prison murder. Utah State Prison surveillance cameras capture this disturbing real life account of the vicious stabbing of a black inmate – Lonnie Blackmon – by convicted murderer and white supremacist Troy Kell and his accomplice Eric Daniels.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5749037562192962462
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Questions for Cathy – Overseeing an execution
What would it be like for you to oversee an execution?
It would be challenging on a number of levels. This is difficult to answer.
I’ve had a great teacher in Warden Cain. He is professional and
compassionate. I’d like think I’d be that way. Its a strange process and
event. Staff are pulled in so many directions and we have so many people to
consider and assist during this time. I’d talk a lot to those around me.
I’d make it as transparent as possible and I’d remain as calm and helpful
as I could be. I don’t think I’d approach them all the same – outside of
course the official, legal requirements.
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California Shifts Money From Prisons to Schools
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed to reduce prison costs in California and funnel the saved money into higher education. Though the details of his new plan are not yet clear, it seems the proposal calls for some privatization of California prisons and/or services. The proposal will require a constitutional amendment or ballot box action.
Read more here.
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David Letteman- Letters from Prisoners 01/17/2007
In this video you will see actual letters written to David Letterman regarding his television show. This is an attempt to be humorous about the idea of prisoners writing to a talk show host. Do you think it is a good way to lighten the mood of a serious issue or an insult to incarcerated men/women around the country? Take a look.
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Occupation of Alcatraz
Just over 40 years ago in November 1969, Indians of All Tribes (IAT) began an occupation of Alcatraz that lasted 19 months. According to the Native Americans occupying the land, all abandoned or unused federal lands was to be given back to the Native people from whom it was originally taken with accordance of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the US and the Sioux. Due to lack of electricity, water, and food, the population on the island dwindled and the remaining occupants were forcibly removed by the US government.
Photographer, Ilka Hartmann, photographically documented the occupation and is currently displaying slides and lectures on the events in honor of the 40th anniversary of the occupation.
Read an interview with Ilka Hartmann HERE.
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