In the talk he focused mainly on #prison conditions, a critique of the criminal justice system, the actions of state agencies to keep him there, and the support he received from comrades.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/12/toby-shone-the-state-machine-is-terrified-of-the-links-we-make-with-each-other/

Death penalty update: On March 11, the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed David Wood’s execution. The court has not yet announced whether it will send the case back to the trial court to review the evidence of Wood’s innocence.
https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/

"Folsom Prison Blues" is a song by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, based on material composed by #GordonJenkins. Written in 1953, it was first recorded and released as a single in 1955, and later included on his debut studio album #JohnnyCashWithHisHotAndBlueGuitar (1957), as the album's eleventh track. The song combines elements from two popular #folk styles, the #trainSong and the #prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6HMjC1ssZc

Les 5 camarades en #gardeavue hier suite à leur action contre la vente des #TerritoiresPalestiniens au salon immobilier à #paris dimanche sont libres. Mais l’histoire n’est pas finie. Les réquisitions étaient inouïes ( #prison ), passage au #tribunal en mai. #activisme #mastodon #fediverse

#Prisoners are still self-immolating at #RedOnionState #Prison, and prison officials are cutting off #communication with the outside #world while engaging in more brutality against Black prisoners. Prison #Radio is now unable to reach #KevinRashidJohnson. Listen to Kevin’s most recent and very chilling description of conditions at #RedOnion.

https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/prisoners-continue-self-immolation-at-red-onion-state-prison/

https://katran.thecomicseries.com/comics/430 FREEDOM ...or is it?
This whole establishing shot in the middle took way toooooo long, but I'm happy that the lighting came out as planned.

#Katran #Nirrod #Kie-Pur #webcomic #comics #manga #art #prison-break #cute

San Quentin 1981-83

Ruth Morgan and her colleague Barbara Yaley were provided access to San Quentin Prison and the men locked up inside.

San Quentin 1981-83

In the minimum security block of the prison inmates were allowed to decorate their cells w/ items from home, but when a new warden took over the prison these cells were stripped bare. Later, some of Ruth Morgan's photos were used in court to help improve conditions at the prison

San Quentin 1981-83

For about 2 years Ruth Morgan and her colleague Barbara Yaley were provided access to San Quentin Prison and the men locked up inside.

Today in Labor History March 11, 1850: French anarchist Clément Duval was born. His theory of individual reclamation, which justified theft, and other crimes, as both educational and legitimate ways to redistribute the wealth, influenced the Illegalists of the 1910s, including Jules Bonnot, of the Bonnot Gang. According to Paul Albert, "The story of Clement Duval was lifted and, shorn of all politics, turned into the bestseller Papillon."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #illegalism #prison #deportation #wealth #BonnotGang #papillon #individualism #novel #fiction #writer #author #books @bookstadon

“They were accusing me of every unsolved crime on the planet.”

Despite numerous oversights and concerns with his case highlighted by his attorneys, David Wood is scheduled to be executed on Thursday. https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/

#DeathPenalty #CriminalJustice #politics #USpol #news #Texas #prison #HumanRights

Denouncing #Trump or organizing #protests against #Trump on #Facebook is like giving our escape plan to the #prison guard.

Elle a osé le dire: “Il y a une pièce qui était un ancien cachot où, autrefois, le président de séance pouvait enfermer des députés.", rappelle Yaël Braun-Pivet dans Ouest-France. Une cellule, utilisée pour la dernière fois au 19è siècle, et redécouverte lors de travaux en 2010. Ah, c'était le bon temps. La pièce a depuis été convertie en bureaux, occupés par des députés de droite. Un choix prémonitoire, au regard de la situation du clan Sarkozy...

Hmmm.... so the Govt's answer to extreme workloads for probation officers, is not to invest in more staff but rather to cut provision of rehabilitation programmes & lower the grade of staff that deal with sex offenders (in England & Wales).

This looks like yet another case of the Govt. knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing... the social costs of this sort of this sort of myopic politics are all too predictable!

#Prison #rehabilitation #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/10/alarm-plan-less-qualified-probation-staff-sex-offenders-england-wales

The cyberpunk-dystopia-to-current-reality pipeline just keeps flowing

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/08/vr-prison-california

We see so many reports about israeli captives but Palestinian captives and prisoners are another, non viral, story. The literally #warcrimes against health sector and personnel of #Gaza are still ignored by international community.

"Many days I was tied to a chair in the interrogation room for maybe 15 hours. I was not allowed to sleep or eat or drink. They tied my arms to the chair very painfully and when they were beating me they would put their hands or legs on my chest to bend my back."
"Throughout this period, while we were being transferred, we were given severe, brutal beatings all over our bodies. I suffered bone fractures on my right side, which affected me greatly all the way through the first three or four months of detention. I never got any medical care."
"They asked me my name and my profession and when I said I was a doctor they handcuffed and blindfolded me....We were all put in a transport vehicle where we were beaten with sticks. They urinated on us."
"I spent almost three months in Ofer. The food they gave us were small pieces of bread with a small amount of yoghurt and a spoon of jam."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/26/testimony-of-gaza-doctors-israel-prison
#prison #IsraelWarCrimes #genocide #HumanRights #zioNaZis

@palestine @israel

Jailhouse snitch testimony is considered a red flag by many legal experts. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 256 people who have been exonerated of felonies in the United States since 1989 were convicted in a case using jailhouse informant testimony. Sixteen were from #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/

On the power of #books and #reading, across the pond.

> It wasn’t until I went to prison that I realised how important reading was – it became a lifeline https://www.bigissue.com/culture/books/prison-reading-groups-world-book-day/

#prison #literacy

@bookstodon

Court filings reveal a bombshell: A former cellmate of one of the informants said he knows that the story the state used to convict Wood—the purported jailhouse confession—was made up with the help of El Paso police.
https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/