World-News

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''In the United States, more than 2.2 million people sit behind bars, according to the Justice Policy Institute.... But behind the shocking statistics are harsh sentencing laws and lucrative contracts for private prison firms that continue to drive the mass incarceration system, say the protesters at Occupy for Prisons, and they are calling for a fundamental change to the system.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-prisoners-comes-out-against-mass-incarceration/1329940192



Occupy the Department of Education: Just What Education Activists Were Looking for

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''On behalf of the people of New York City, the Panel for Educational Police (PEP) assembled on the evening of February 9. On behalf of the people of New York City, it deliberated the closure of 23 city schools. And on behalf of the people of New York City, it ignored the thousands of parents, students, teachers and taxpayers who had come to protest and axed the schools anyway. Democracy in action.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-department-education-just-what-education-activists-were-looking/1329860593

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7.1 Million Americans are in the Prisons system

Video
http://bit.ly/HWsL4R



Cruel And Unusual Punishment

Video By CBS

''There is no jail in the United States that has this pattern of misconduct, of abuse and essentially sadism that the L.A. county jail has,'' said Kaye.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31083.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Incarceration, Inc.
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/06-0



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=incarcerat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=prison+system
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=abuse
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Occupy+Movement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yana+Kunichoff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=J.A.+Myerson