Prisons are institutions of warfare that masquerade as apolitical instruments of crime control, says an anthropologist.
In Washington, D.C., Orisanmi Burton is assistant professor of anthropology at American University, author of a book about the 1971 Attica prison uprising, upstate New York, titled Tip of the ...
Thousands of corrections officers at dozens of prisons have been protesting working conditions in wildcat strikes across the ...
New York State prison guards went on a wildcat strike following some of their own being held accountable for the inmate’s ...
Emerson joined the NYS Organized Crime Task Force in 1971 as the Communications Chief and Criminal Intelligence Analyst, notably investigating the Attica Prison Riots. He later took a position ...
As if the Attica riot in September 1971 wasn't enough of ... In 1913 he served three years at the state's Sing Sing prison and then President Wilson ordered him in 1917 to the federal prison ...
Demands from striking correction officers reveal their true concern: They don't want their conduct caught on camera.
"The officers claim to be complaining about safety," said Jerome Wright, co-director of the #HALTsolitary Campaign. "They are not dying. We are." ...
A scion of one of the most notable families in Chicago’s busy business history, Peter Bensinger was born into a world that could have provided him shelter from life’s storms. But he was drawn to less ...
My name is Marcus Gottsche. I’ve been in prison nearly 14 years, mostly in Attica, site of the 1971 riot and hostage crisis. I’m serving 22 and a half years for manslaughter. When I first ...
Corrections officers object to even limited constraints on their ability to impose a regime of terror on inmates.
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