A mass hunger strike transformed solitary confinement in California prisons. This documentary captures the fight
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...
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‘A relentlessly dull world’ – the case for adding more colour to NZ’s grey prisons
Grey walls, grey furniture and grey jumpsuits affect the psychology of prisoners. Research suggests simple, colourful ...
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Everything coming to PBS in February 2025
Opened in 1989, Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary ... made fortunes on the back of Nazi-looted art, perpetuating a decades-long war crime that has never been fully exposed ...
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10 average 1990s action thrillers that beat anything made today
This film launched Snipes as an action star, and it’s easy to see why—few leading men in Hollywood could match the martial arts skills Snipes displays ... held in the maximum security unit of Pelican ...
‘The Strike’: When Collective Action Leads to Prison Reform
The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...
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Sacramento inmate at Pelican Bay one of three charged in stabbing attack on prison guard
Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles. Mark Boster Los Angeles Times A Sacramento County inmate at ...
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Former inmate to lead prison arts group that inspired Oscar-nominated 'Sing Sing'
Jermaine Archer did time in Sing Sing and has been tapped to lead the prison-arts group that inspired the Oscar-nominated ...
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What detainees’ art can tell us about Guantánamo Bay
When Moath al-Alwi left Guantánamo Bay ... prison’s population before the end of President Joe Biden’s term. For al-Alwi, it ...