The Minnesota Department of Corrections is a racket that prioritizes profits over rehabilitation, with the system being plagued by violence, overcrowding, and corruption, and whistleblowers revealing the extent of the problems.
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Rush City is Minnesota’s worst prison
Rush City prison is overcrowded, understaffed, and inhumane, with two prisoners often being housed in one cell, leading to violent clashes and inhumane living conditions.
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Death and redemption in an American prison
A prison inmate who was convicted of second-degree murder, volunteered to start the nation’s first prison hospice program at Angola, Louisiana.
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Tory Lanez receives 10 Year prison sentence for shooting Megan Thee StallionÂ
The sentencing comes after a Los Angeles jury, in December, found Lanez guilty of all three charges linked to the July 2020 shooting in Hollywood Hills.
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Shakopee women offenders subjected to crowded, unlawful conditions
While the men’s prisons are working hard to ‘single cell’ all of the men, promoting positive mental health, privacy, and calm, MN DOC and MCF-Shakopee are heinously attacking the women offenders by trying to do the opposite.
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The prison treatment trap for release violators
The sad fact is we have one of the lowest rates of recommitting a crime in Minnesota, roughly 3%, yet we get supervised like we’re worse than murderers, who also have a really low recidivism rate.
Posted inArts + Culture, Music
R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in federal prison
On Wednesday, a federal judge clipped the wings of music superstar R. Kelly sentencing him to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
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The transgender experience in prison
Over the last year, the DOC has changed some of its policy to address concerns of the transgender prisoner community but many problems still exist.
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Thousands of MN prisoners remain unvaccinated
Prisons are notoriously dangerous places during a viral outbreak, and incarcerated people have been left at the mercy of those at the helm of correctional facilities across the country.
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There are better options than the failing prison system
Who will mourn an unknown human being, behind the walls?
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The lies they tell: COVID-19 inside our prisons
What are we really doing to help and prevent the spread of this deadly disease to the human beings who are incarcerated in our prisons?
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Is the goal really rehabilitation in prisons?
Most prison environments are a microcosm of the slums and crime-ridden areas of America.
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Incarcerating Black women for the crime of poverty
The nonprofit organization Prison Policy Initiative has reported that almost two out of every three women in jail have not been convicted of a crime.
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The destinies of prison families
Loving someone in prison should not be stigmatized A biweekly column in which various contributors from both sides of prison walls explore common ground for effecting change. I’ve been gone a long time. At the very beginning, someone in my family sat behind the glass in the Hennepin County visiting room with tears in her […]