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Rating Reporting On April 8 2021, Imgur user “superscout0233” shared the following meme with a fakeout ending, initially stating that “under [Joseph] Stalin,” the Soviet Union’s gulags held 22 percent of the world’s prison population — before adding text indicating that statistic was not about the Soviet Union but was, in fact, true for the United States in 2021: The Post Above and beneath a propaganda-poster style image of Stalin, text read: Under Stalin, repression was so severe that Soviet Gulags held 22% of the world’s entire prison population Just kidding, that’s in the...

Prisoner advocate Sir Kim Workman on how New Zealand's human rights record has taken a battering, and the Māori-led measures that are actually working. The six-day stand-off between prisoners in Waikeria’s top jail and prison management partially destroyed a building already targeted for demoliti

On January 31, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude. But there was a loophole. Slavery and involuntary servitude were abolished, except as a punishment for a crime. Once you are arrested and convicted of a crime, you become a slave to the state. From slavery to the Jim Crow era to mass incarceration, the machine of the oppressor continues.  As reported by the National Research Council, a 2011 study done by the International Centre for Prison Studies found that approximately 10.1 million people are incarcera...

Of prisoners in rome and visited the largest and most notorious prison in bolivia earlier this year. >> what does it mean in your heart that he's coming to see you. >> means a lot. he's stepping into a prison without passing judgment on anybody. that's hard for a lot of people to do. and coming from him, i mean, it's peaceful, it's humbling. >> he's a man of faith and he's not above us. >> i'm just a human being. >> albert is a practicing muslim. i represent peace. >> he does not practice your religion and vice versa, but it doesn't matter to you. >> it doesn't. at the end of the day, it's not...