I\u2019m gonna do this so it gets progressively cheerier as it goes on. The last link is about oppressed people on a \u201cMan Jailed for Traffic Ticket Dies in Cell After 17 Days of Torture. Guards Watched It Happen\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n It was a death sentence.<\/p>\n David Stojcevski, a 32-year-old resident of Roseville, Michigan, was arrested for failing to pay a $772 fine stemming from careless driving. A court ordered him to spend a month in the Macomb County jail.<\/p>\n Over the next 17 days of his incarceration in a brightly lit cell\u2014where he was denied clothing\u2014he lost 50 pounds, suffered convulsions, and eventually began to hallucinate. He died in agony, from a combination of obvious, untreated drug withdrawal and galling neglect.<\/p>\n Making matters worse (if anything could be worse than that), the entirety of his demise was captured on jail surveillance footage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n more<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cCostly Prison Fees Are Putting Inmates Deep in Debt\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Jeremy Barrett remembers very little of the assault that would change his life.<\/p>\n He was at the end of a three-year sentence in a Florida state prison when he was caught stealing potatoes from the prison kitchen. As punishment, he was sent to confinement with a cellmate who, according to court filings, was \u201cseverely mentally ill.\u201d The man attacked Barrett in a violent rage, ultimately gouging out one of his eyes. \u201cI went into shock,\u201d Barrett said.<\/p>\n When he got out of prison one month later, Barrett, 36, sued the Florida Department of Corrections for negligence. The department responded with a counterclaim or a \u201ccost of incarceration lien\u201d of $54,750 \u2014 the total cost of Barrett\u2019s 1,095 day stay in the prison at $50 a day.<\/p>\n \u201cThey charged me for me being in prison,\u201d Barrett said. \u201cYeah I was surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n When another inmate, Dee Taylor, was released after serving a three-year bid in various Florida prisons, he also got a bill for around $55,000 from the Florida Department of Corrections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n more<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cPhone Video Clears Man Charged with Assaulting Cop\u2013Even After Video Disappears\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The ten-second video doesn\u2019t show much, just a quick shot of one Toronto police officer, then a second, who then reaches up to slap away the cellphone camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n But the brief video recording captured the crucial part of Abdi Sheik-Qasim\u2019s exchange with Toronto police Consts. Piara Dhaliwal and Akin Gul \u2014 enough for an Ontario judge to rule Sheik-Qasim had been assaulted by Toronto police, not the other way around. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It was only when he arrived back home that Sheik-Qasim realized he had enabled a function on the phone that automatically uploaded video files to his Google account. The recording was waiting for him when he checked his email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n more<\/a> (q: wait where did his phone go? a: film the police)<\/p>\n \u201cThe Program That\u2019s Keeping Women Out of Prison\u2013And Saving Money\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The night Abria Sanders got caught by police with a gun in her possession her life changed forever, though not in the way she expected.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was some stuff going down on the streets,\u201d the 27-year-old single mother of two recalls, \u201cso I took a gun from my friend\u2019s house and put it in my purse.\u201d She never made it home.<\/p>\n En route, she was stopped by police officers who found the weapon. Before she knew it she was in a Riker\u2019s Island jail cell facing felony charges and a three-year stint in prison.<\/p>\n \u201cI was so mad at myself,\u201d she says, on a recent morning after dropping her seven-year-old daughter off at school. \u201cI thought I\u2019d messed up everything.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders could be behind bars in an upstate prison right now, with her children either in foster care or split up between different relatives. But thanks to an innovative program called Justice Home, available only in New York<\/a>, she got to stay at home and look after them instead \u2013 an intervention that she says has been lifesaving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n more<\/a> (and it looks like this is a \u201ccall the program itself and talk to one of their clients but do no other reporting\u201d piece, so take it for what it\u2019s worth\u2026)<\/p>\n and! \u201cWas Australia\u2019s First Zine Made on a Convict Ship?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Let me ask you something. If it was 1867 and you were on the last convict voyage from Britain to Australia, languishing below deck under lock and key, what would you be doing to pass the time? Squireling away each lime that rolled through the mess and waiting \u2019til dead of night to rub it against your scurvy tooth stumps? Weeing into your hammock to avoid the queue for the water closet? Not John Flood. Like an Irish J. Jonah Jameson with no photography budget, he was commissioning content for his convict newspaper.<\/p>\n The Wild Goose: A Collection of Ocean Waifs<\/em> was a weekly edition\u2014handwritten on foolscap donated by the onboard priest, and read aloud to passengers of the convict ship Hougoumont every Sunday. Reaching a landmark seven issues, The Wild Goose<\/em> could be called Australia\u2019s first zine. True to the traditions of zine-making, at least, it was a bitch to produce. In the transcripts, Flood\u2019s grouchy asides reveal the challenges of convict-ship publishing\u2014including losing \u201ca great quantity of manuscript, some careless person having sat on our slates.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n more<\/a> (via Jesse Walker<\/a>)<\/p>\n Coming up<\/strong>: jail dress codes, \u201cprison without punishment,\u201d and maybe Gullah dispute resolution.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m gonna do this so it gets progressively cheerier as it goes on. The last link is about oppressed people on a party ship prison ship into awesome koalaland exile so uh this subject only gets so cheery. But it\u2019s a terrific link, you should scroll. \u201cMan Jailed for Traffic Ticket Dies in Cell After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,50,195,353,106,107,77,51,234,387,218],"class_list":["post-10078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse-of-power-comes-as-no-surprise","tag-five-star-final","tag-if-you-dont-like-the-news-make-some-yourself","tag-land-down-under","tag-no-more-cotton-pickin-prisons","tag-prayers-to-st-joseph-cafasso","tag-prepare-for-life-in-capitalist-america-play-class-struggle-the-game","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states","tag-the-war-on-some-drugs","tag-under-capricorn","tag-we-stand-on-cars-and-freeze"],"yoast_head":"\nparty ship<\/del> prison ship into awesome koalaland<\/del> exile so uh this subject only gets so cheery. But it\u2019s a terrific link, you should scroll.<\/p>\n