Puerto Rico, Protest, Prison: Johanna Fernández and Jose Saldaña Talk About The Young Lords
Johanna Fernández, Jose Saldańa, susie day, CounterPumch — Commemorating Johanna Fernández • her interview with RAPP’s Jose Saldaña, conducted in 2020
Lisette’s Brother Is in Prison • Big Secret, Don’t Tell Nobody…
susie day / CounterPunch+ — Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility last December—staged a wildcat strike. The strike left thousands of prisoners locked for weeks inside cold cells, cut off from food, showers, medicine, visits. The strike is over now; the guards have basically won. But, during the strike, at least nine incarcerated people died of beatings or medical neglect. Phillip Nieves was one of those incarcerated who lived through it. Phillip's sister, Lisette Nieves, lived through it as well.
Sing Sing the Movie Gets Raves; Sing Sing the Prison Gets Off Easy
susie day / CounterPunch+ — Art can open you up to see and understand whole new freeing dimensions of life. But most of us are purposely kept away from the reality of life inside prisons. Definitely, see the movie — but as you’re watching, keep in mind that it isn’t about prison so much as the wonder of the “rehabilitation” program....
The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom
July 31, 2022: susie day, CounterPunch+
Those Most in Need Of Mercy: Why Melissa Tanis Works to Get Elders Out of Prison
By: susie day, CounterPunch - "My dad went to prison when I was five. I think we visited him a couple times while he was in jail, before he was sentenced. After that, I didn’t have contact with him since I was six or seven years old..."