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PHOTOS FOR PRISONERS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

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Kites Team posted on 31 Jan 12 at 7:35 am  ·  0 comments

Congress needs to hear from you, or this bill passes

Today, we are striking against censorship. Join the largest online protest in history: tell Congress to stop this bill now!

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Kites Team posted on 18 Jan 12 at 10:06 am  ·  0 comments

A Decade of Detention: The Post 9/11 Immigrant Dragnet

In June, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), released enforcement statistics showing that over 363,000 people were detained during FY 2010.

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Kites Team posted on 8 Sep 11 at 10:47 am  ·  0 comments

Q + A, Andalusia Knoll, Thousand Kites

Meet Andalusia Knoll. She is a multimedia journalist, popular educator and organizer.

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Kites Team posted on 26 Aug 11 at 3:33 pm  ·  0 comments

We Can’t Pay the Bill

A popular education video about the cost of prisons.

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Kites Team posted on 27 Jul 11 at 4:07 pm  ·  0 comments

The Prison Industrial Complex is…

A new zine by artist Billy Dee combines the power of visual art with the functionality of a PDF to communicate a story about the Prison Industrial Complex.

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Kites Team posted on 11 May 11 at 7:11 am  ·  0 comments

Jailhouse Lawyer Handbook Victory

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This is an interview with Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol about a recent victory for The Jailhouse Lawyer Handbook that will prevent the handbook from being banned in Virginia Prisons.

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Andalusia posted on 30 Mar 11 at 9:40 pm  ·  0 comments

Virgin Island prisoners who won’t cut hair held in isolation in Virginia State prisons

In the early part of this decade, a prisoner named Bradley Maxwell got into trouble for refusing a haircut. He was serving time at the Wallens Ridge State Prison in Virginia. He had been convicted of a separate transgression back in his home in the Virgin Islands but was nevertheless shipped to Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in the United States.

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Nick posted on 22 May 10 at 4:15 am  ·  2 comments