CW- prison violence, suicide. For the second winter in a row, people held at Columbia CI have defended themselves against the daily violence of incarceration in that facility. We do not know many details yet, but we’re hearing that on Dec 30 and 31, three staff were severely beaten. The preceding incidents for these specific …
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Don’t get it twisted, Governor Evers doesn’t need our help
Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes held a virtual town hall to discuss the 2021-23 budget in regards to prison and policing on December 8th. He and members of his administration lied to participants and muted people who objected to those lies, undermining their branding of the event as a “people’s budget listening session”. More than …
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Defund the Prisons (abridged version)
Wisconsin prison boss Kevin Carr has both publicly and privately requested that prisoner advocates and anti-prison organizers help him expand funding for programming and mental health treatment in the DOC’s budget. We emphatically reject his call for help.
Kevin Carr hiding bodies? (Abolitionists confront DOC Secretary)
Secretary Carr told lies and exaggerated his accomplishments in this video and in responses to our calls and emails.