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This work examines the particulars of the 2010 strike and shows the fundamental issues of captive labor have remained consistent even as the institutions enforcing and benefitting from that labor have changed over time. It will consider the intersections between free world and captive labor history and look at the inherent tensions and common concerns of these two labor forces. Finally, it will show the federal and local governments’ interest in obscuring that commonality.
In this work I illustrate the ways in which power structures function in operationalizing geographies of resistance in two particular carceral spaces. Specifically I examine the social organization and internal power relations present within hunger striking prison populations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California. I show that the Guantanamo hunger strikes are minimally organized with non-binding power structures, while the Pelican Bay hunger strikes have had greater levels of commitment, and have been more sophisticated in organization. I consider the relationships that exist between power, identity and violence within these hunger strike resistance movements. I contextualize these phenomena within a biopolitical framework that advances more traditional definitions of biopolitics; as opposed to conceptualizing biopolitics as a technology of power manifested by the state, I argue that oppressed populations, such as prisoners, construct their own power by regulating their own ‘vital biological processes.’
Environmental Injustice Behind Bars: Toxic Imprisonment in America
PEJP Annual Report 2018.pdf2018 •
Environmental injustice is a term used to describe the fact that environmental threats in general, and climate disruptions in particular, affect communities, nations, and regions of the globe differently and unevenly, with low income and global south communities, people of color communities, and indigenous communities being hit the hardest. Prisons and jails in the United States have been increasingly found to be associated with environmental impacts on the lands upon which they are built and on the inmates that they house, and are a new focus for the environmental justice movement. Rampant toxics exposure, water contamination, inadequate medical care, rancid food, extreme heat, poor air quality, chemical attacks by authorities, and in some cases the very facilities being built on contaminated superfund sites directly impact the health of those who are incarcerated and work in these spaces. Legally, many of these incidents directly violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and given the disproportionately high number of members of minority groups in the prison system, constitute environmental justice, civil rights, and human rights violations as well. This report details the research conducted by the UCSB Prison Environmental Justice Project (an initiative of the Global Environmental Justice Project) that investigates the links between prisons, jails, immigrant prisons, and environmental justice concerns in the United States. Through our research we have found clear and compelling evidence of environmental injustice in a multitude of carceral facilities around the country- from state and federal prisons, to juvenile detention centers to immigrant prisons, and we call for immediate congressional action to bring about swift remediation of these issues. All over the nation, juveniles, citizens, immigrants, and legal asylum seekers are being held captive in institutions that are poisoning them against their will and knowledge. Currently, these abuses and indiscretions against prisoners and their wellbeing are well documented, blatantly ignored, and face no repercussions for the entities involved. We strongly recommend further research into these institutions, legal action, and grassroots resistance to bring about new practices prioritizing compassionate rehabilitation, public health, and environmental justice. We are heartened to see the many actions taken by prisoners and their allies to bring attention to these concerns and to fight back against the predatory, cruel, and genocidal policies and practices of the U.S. prison system. These include petitions, health surveys, sit-ins, hunger strikes, spoken and written words shared with mass media and NGOs, and artistry depicting these struggles and visions of a better world. We support these nonviolent, peaceful efforts and hope that this report will be received as an affirmation for those persons engaging in such acts and as an inspiration to those who have yet to join the movement.
Antiprison activists have often turned the federal court system to reduce the violence of the carceral state. However, such reform attempts have too often had the unintended conse‑ quence of fortifying the penal system. In this article, I interrogate one such intervention—a federal court order that encompassed the Louisiana Department of Corrections from 1975 to 1998. I argue that while the lawsuit was declared a success in reforming Angola, the federal court's intervention buttressed and legitimated the growth of the Louisiana penal system. This paradox was produced through the limits of liberal reform ideology that failed to recognize the structural violence of incarceration. Rather, the federal courts located violence with prisoners instead of the punitive power of the state and racial capitalism. This framework not only led to an increase in punitive practices within Angola, it came to underpin penal expansion as the primary solution to cyclical overcrowding. In the summer of 2016, the New Orleans city jail was in the spotlight yet again. Just over 8 months after the opening of the shiny new " Orleans Justice Center " 1 the jail was already marred in a lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a number of incar‑ cerated people (Mustian 2016b). The lawsuit charged the Orleans Parish Sheriff Office (OPSO) with violating the constitutional rights of prisoners through significant misman‑ agement and routinized violence. Central to the plaintiffs' suit was a request for the jail to be taken out of the hands of Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman and placed under fed‑ eral receivership. This request while heralded by several local prison reform organizations was fiercely contested by not only Gusman and the powerful Louisiana Sheriffs' Associa‑ tion but also a number of local leaders who argued that placing the jail in federal receiver‑ ship would amount to the disenfranchisement of the voters of Orleans Parish that elected
Abolishing Carceral Society
Shifting Carceral Landscapes: Decarceration and the Reconfiguration of White Supremacy2018 •
This essay explores the changing contours of white supremacy in the United States, and in particular its relationship to systems of control and confinement. Many critics have illuminated the ways that racial control is inherent to and embedded within the penal system. In light of some of the federal- and state-level reforms that claim to incarcerate less and use more “alternative,” community-based sanctions, we interrogate the ways that white racial interests continue to be secured across the carceral landscape, thus granting official politics limited space to entertain negligible decarceration policies. In this preliminary survey of the carceral landscape, we critique several white-dominant social institutions that work together to confine and control communities of color outside of the prison walls, while reproducing varying forms of racial caste. We incorporate historical understandings of racialization and colonization, as well as contemporary concepts and observations from academia and beyond to highlight the extent of this entrenchment. It is our hope that this survey will address the shape of racialized control in the United States that must be considered when addressing just one of its manifestations—the prison state.
This is my critique of Heather Ann Thompson’s acclaimed book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. I argue that the book actively undermines the significance of the rebellion by over-relying on state documents, erasing racial violence from the normal routines of prison life, ignoring key aspects of the rebels’ critique of prisons, and distorting their radical abolitionist politics. The review essay was originally posted at AbolitionJournal.org on January 26, 2017.
The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Rights, and the Legacy of the Radical Prison Movement2012 •
This paper explores in details the basics and dynamics of Palestinian hunger strikes from the time they were first documented until the recent days.
This paper finds qualified support for the use of Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyz-stan, Northern Ireland and Brazil. However, Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory has little to say about how many prison gangs emerge and how they organise comparatively outside the US context. This paper argues that variation in the number of gangs and their monopolization of informal governance can only be explained by considering importation and deprivation theories alongside governance theories. These theories factor in variation in prison environments and pre-existing societal divisions imported into prison, which affect the costs on information transmission and incentives for gang expansion. In particular, the paper pays attention to the wider role social and political processes play in influencing whether monopoly power by prison gangs is supported and legitimized or not.
Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Collections and Museums in the Historiography of the Earth Sciences2024 •
A Carn! Revista electrònica d'història militar catalana
A carn!, La revista electrónica d´història militar catalana que aporta dades sobre les guerres dels catalans, principalment la guerra de Separació o dels Segadors (1640-1659), la guerra del Francès (1808-1814) o de Napoleó i la Guerra Civil Espanyola (1936-1939)2015 •
Atena Editora - Engenharia elétrica: conceitos fundamentais e aplicações práticas
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THEORIES ON THE ORIGINS OF GEOMAGNETISM2023 •
Mondoweiss.net
The dead end of liberal American Zionism – Mondoweiss2024 •
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Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)
Impacts of Erasure Coding on Robustness against Molecular Packet Losses in Aqueous, Collisional Environments2017 •
Czech Journal of Food Sciences
Microwave treatment and drying of germinated pea2011 •
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The Korean journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Inter-Facility Transport on Extracorporeal Life Support: Clinical Outcomes and Comparative Analysis with In-house Patients2017 •
Japan Medical Association journal : JMAJ
[India]health database in an information societyTransplantation Proceedings
Real-Time Noninvasive Assessment of Pancreatic ATP Levels During Cold Preservation2008 •