The Chris Hedges Report: The Long Road Home – Part 2
In the conclusion of The Long Road Home, Chris Hedges looks at the numerous hurdles faced by prisoners released into society, the toll of reentry on their families, the importance…
Why are so many LGBTQ people incarcerated in the US?
“At least 40% of people incarcerated in American women’s prisons identify somewhere under the broad lesbian-bisexual-trans-queer umbrella—a shocking statistic that holds true when looking at detention centers for youths as…
Keeping incarcerated mothers and their families together
As Wendy Sawyer and Wanda Bertram recently wrote for the Prison Policy Initiative, “Over half (58%) of all women in US prisons are mothers, as are 80% of women in…
Prisons are an environmental catastrophe
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…
Rattling the Bars: America’s rural county jail boom w/Stephen Janis and Taya Graham
Read the transcript of this video: https://therealnews.com/booming-rural-county-jails-are-now-the-main-driver-of-mass-incarceration-study-says Stephen Janis and Taya Graham of Police Accountability Report join Rattling the Bars to discuss a new report from the Vera Institute on…
Rattling the Bars: Unions must stand up for prisoners
Prisoners today are fighting the same labor conditions behind bars that birthed the union movement in the 19th Century. US labor journalist and Real News contributor Michael Sainato joins Rattling…
Rattling the Bars: Repurposing prisons can revitalize rural America
The economic fortunes of rural communities across the United States are often deeply intertwined with the prison industrial complex. This poses a real challenge to the project of ending mass…
Rikers Island’s Deadliest Year with Olayemi Olurin | Rattling the Bars
Editor’s note: This interview was filmed on Dec. 1, 2022. A 19th person, Edgardo Mejia, died at Rikers on Sunday, Dec. 11. 19 people died on Rikers Island in 2022,…
Rattling the Bars: Prison slavery in America
This year, 5 US states are considering amendments to their constitutions to remove language similar to the 13th Amendment. Historian Robert T. Chase joins Rattling the Bars to discuss what…
50 years of mass incarceration in America | Rattling the Bars
Nicole Porter from The Sentencing Project joins Rattling the Bars to explain her organization’s new campaign to fight mass incarceration, ’50 years and a wake up.’ Post-production: Cameron Granadino The…
Interview from prison: What an inhumane carceral system does to human psyches
In this urgent, exclusive interview for Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Carla J. Simmons from inside the Georgia prison system, as well as Page Dukes of the Southern…
‘This is war’ fighting mass incarceration from inside prisons | Rattling the Bars
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/how-a-1970s-prisoner-organized-literacy-program-changed-marylands-penitentiaries Marshall “Eddie” Conway was framed for the murder of a police officer and incarcerated for 44 years—but even behind bars, he continued to…
‘The Road to Damascus’ confronts white supremacy with theater | Rattling the Bars
The new one-woman play ‘The Road to Damascus’ reinterprets the biblical story of Saul and the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an allegory for white complicity in the…
The federal govt wants to steal from prisoners’ families | Rattling the Bars
Incarcerated people across the US could find their commissary funds depleted by a new proposed policy from the Bureau of Prisons to automatically deduct three quarters of all funds prisoners…
Why incarcerated people’s perspectives matter w/Da’Shaun Harrison | Rattling the Bars
The call for prison abolition has been popularized over the last decade of popular movements against police violence, many of which have operated under the banner of Black Lives Matter.…
Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline w/Keturah Herron | Rattling the Bars
The system of mass incarceration extends into the public education system. Known as the school-to-prison pipeline, policies that criminalize youth and their families, from the presence of police in schools…
‘What is Juneteenth to the incarcerated Black person?’ | Rattling the Bars
Juneteenth has become a federal holiday—yet prison slavery under the 13th Amendment continues. Uprooting the prison industrial complex is vital to completing the abolition of slavery. In California, the Californians…
Ed Poindexter—Black Panther imprisoned for 52 years | Rattling the Bars
After 52 years of incarceration, Edward Alan Poindexter is among the longest serving political prisoners in US and world history. Originally part of the “Omaha Two,” Poindexter and Mondo we…
Who was George Jackson? America’s prophetic revolutionary | Rattling the Bars
At the age of 18, George Jackson was condemned to a prison sentence of one year to life for the alleged robbery of $70 from a Los Angeles gas station.…
Juvenile sentencing in the US is barbaric, racist, and ineffective | Rattling the Bars
“The United States is the only country in the world that permits youth to be sentenced to life without parole,†the Juvenile Law Center notes. “Sentencing children to die in…
Nebraska teen imprisoned for abortion is just a taste of post-Roe America | Rattling the Bars
The shocking arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of Nebraska teen Celeste Burgess and her mother, Jessica Burgess, has now become one of the best-known cases of abortion criminalization in post-Roe America.…