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"The film offers an unfiltered view inside a system where overcrowding, untreated addiction, and violence are routine, and where official oversight is almost nonexistent."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/11/alabama-solution-prisons…

How ‘The Alabama Solution’ Documents the ‘Horrors’ Inside Prisons
The directors of ‘The Alabama Solution’ discuss their piercing new documentary and what they hope people will take away from the film.

Note I say “change strategy,” not “leave” or “stop.”
Who knows what’s next, but my expectation is for them to switch to things that are less visible, things that don’t look so bad on video. Maybe that means night raids? More likely, I’m guessing it means more rural action, targeting of remote job sites (e.g. farms), nabbing people from prisons, more activity in detention camps that disallow observers, that kind of thing.

The New York Times wins three 2025 Polk Awards, including for its Trump coverage; The Boston Globe, ProPublica, AP, and Business Insider also won (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/media/george-polk-awards.html

The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards
The Times was honored for its coverage of President Trump, the abuse of housekeepers and nannies in Saudi Arabia and brutality in New York prisons.

Mother Jones Sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell Records (David Corn/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mother-jones-sues-bureau-of-prisons-ghislaine-maxwell-records-epstein-trump-todd-blanche/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260114/p169#a260114p169

Memory in the Meme
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upward, condemning the moment to the digital abyss. We have been trained by the Technocrats, those right-brained architects of our algorithmic prisons, to view this behavior as consumption.

Memory in the Meme | David Boles, Blogs
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upwa…

Top Architecture Firm Won't Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt (Madison Pauly/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p13#a260317p13

Lawmakers in Washington state this week approved a ⭐️new income tax on residents making more than $1 million
-- and could spur other states considering similar bills to approve their proposals.
Legislators in the Democrat-led Senate on Wednesday night approved the tax,
-- which will impose a 9.9 percent tax on earners making over $1 million per year and will fund education, prisons, universal school lunches and replace or reduce other taxes, among other things, Democratic l…

Ever wonder what a Supermax prison is like?
Eric King was given 10yrs in "ADX Florence" - the only Supermax in America. Here's what he saw.
▶️ How Supermax Prisons Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMlvLm1yJek&…

Palestinian journalists describe being systematically tortured, abused, beaten, and starved in Israel's prisons between October 2023 and January 2026 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/02/palestinian-journalists-reco…

Palestinian journalists recount abuse in Israeli prisons, CPJ report finds  - Committee to Protect Journalists
International community must pursue accountability for Palestinian journalists harmed in Israeli custody Amman, February 19, 2026 — Palestinian journalists describe being systematically abused, beaten and starved in Israel prisons, according to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).  The report, ‘We returned from hell’: Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons,...

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115872130198816490
Wait, I didn’t mean to say it like that. Reading it again, it sounds like I’m against abolishing prisons, but hell no—I’m all for abolition!