Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/the-prison-industrial-complex-is-an-environmental-catastrophe
“As a result of being on or near wastelands, prisons constantly expose those inside to serious environmental hazards, from tainted water to harmful air pollutants,†Leah Wang recently wrote for the Prison Policy Initiative. “These conditions manifest in health conditions and deaths that are unmistakably linked to those hazards.†In this edition of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Paul Wright about the scope and scale of the drastic environmental hazards the prison-industrial complex poses to incarcerated people, prison staff, and surrounding communities.
Paul Wright is the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center. He is also editor of Prison Legal News (PLN), the longest-running independent prisoner rights publication in US history. Wright has co-authored three PLN anthologies: The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry; Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor; and Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Imprisonment.
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Prisoners are americas forgotten people, and prison a worst of human systems and practices. Equal to the ptsd of wars.
Angels speak threw the mouths of people in hopes that they change because there watching us all every tear is counted!
All government property in USA has been treated like this by our own government all government buildings meant for low income housing are environmental disasters
Great work guys thank you.
All life for the poor and powerless is an environmental catastrophe, outer and inner.
1 second in and the title and I agree! Death penalty for everyone sent to prison 5yr or more! Not the wait around for years type of death penalty either…Like 1 month!
Best wishes for Eddie's recovery! 🪴
If anything, the prison industrial complex must go green as quickly as possible. Became as environmentally friendly as possible. All the way to negative carbon emission and beyond.
If that means completely removing indoor heating, air conditioning, and removing TVs and other electronics from every cell that waste energy.
In addition to feeding inmates energy efficient, sustainable meals such as nutraloaf on a regular basis.
So be it.
Remember folks.
At the end of the day…
There is NO planet B.
When people drink water contaminated with human waste they get an illness called: cholera. This is a problem for Haitians everytime they a hurricane or an earthquake. Once again, good show. Keep it going!
Thank you the realnewsnetwork for bringing knowledge
School shootings are heinous acts however, they are insignificant when compared to the Evil actions imposed by self-seeking police tyrants void of liability and accountability for unlimited profit. (Policing is a useless for profit corporation!)
Qualified Immunity was Satan's greatest 👹gift in creating the dirtiest of self-seeking corrupt fecal police 💩👮… (Zero's that hide from danger are not Hero's)
POLICE require LICENSING (NOT CERTIFICATION) and must carry their own "LIABILITY INSURANCE" saving taxpayers 23 billion dollars each year from valid and disturbing lawsuits against ROGUE officers, which thus far, cities and towns have been forced to pay on behalf of the officers even when they care nothing about school children, society or others!
POLICE OFFICERS, OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS MUST PAY FOR THEIR UNLAWFUL CRIMES! …
(ALWAYS RECORD AND NEVER TALK TO MODERN-DAY "FECAL" POLICE!)
– Michael B. Saari for Michigan State Senate 2022
This is an important discussion that needs to be heard by more people. Thank you for sharing this.
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Today its 93 degrees in Virginia. I'm balancing my comfort against the cost of Air Conditioning. But I spoke with my son – who is thankfully NOT in prison anymore – and he remembers South Hampton Correctional Center in Va when they didn't even sell fans for inmates – much less have any means of lowering the heat in the concrete boxes everyone was sweating and dying in. Can you imagine their days there? Astounding anyone leaves such torture resembling a human at all. And that's just heat torture.
'Corrections', my ass.
They correct nothing.
Big $$$ in prison systems, & I believe the negative energy is loosh to the evil ones in charge
the government and the military and prison industrial complex is Putrid evil, they Do Not care at all about the ppl, because the global elite see us as cash cows and expendable for there amusement, they hate humanity overall and will do everything in the power to cause pain, misery and death, because the demons which work through them thrive on insidious negativity, mayhem, catastrophy, etc!
Jesus is the only answer and way to be saved!
This is Genocide because it’s intentional
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 4 sentadillas son unos Camsexx.Uno muchas y un buen ejercicio. Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados ðŸ˜ðŸ‘ Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖 los mortalesq abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer.k
Hope eddy makes a complete recovery
Almost makes me not want to return to prison…
Why do people expect them to come out reformed
Prisons, military bases, and factories… all teeth in the same mouth
A conversation that needs to be spoken aloud. Shame.