MOHAMED SHEHK of CriticalResistance.org joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the Prison Abolition Movement. The United States has the largest per capita prison population in the world - but why? What can be done about it? What needs to change in our thinking before anything can be done? We will also hear clips from two TEDx talks as well as a clip of activist Angela Davis's views on … [Read more...]
Darren Rainey’s Death Highlights Florida Prison Abuse
As Darren Rainey screamed, “Please take me out! I can’t take it anymore!,” prison guards under the watch of the notorious Florida Department of Corrections laughed. Darren Rainey was then burned to death by four corrections officers at Dade Correctional Institution outside of Miami, Florida on June 23, 2012. In a bafflingly inhumane decision this week, Miami-Dade State's … [Read more...]