Tasing prisoners

August 13, 2012

Kincheloe, Mich.—Recently, as I was awaiting a visit at the Control Center at Chippewa Correctional Facility, I observed three facility staff members around a computer monitor. I heard sound from a video they were viewing of an incident earlier that day involving staff use of TASER-manufactured electro-shock weapons on a prisoner in one of the [=>]

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Labor support for Oscar Grant

November 21, 2010

From the Nov.-Dec. 2010 issue of News & Letters:

Labor for Oscar Grant

Labor and community support for Oscar Grant; photo for News & Letters by Urszula Wislanka

Oakland, Cal.–On Oct. 23 the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) closed all the ports in the Bay Area, leading labor and community in support of Oscar Grant, shot to [=>]

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