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Rattling the Bars, hosted by former Black Panther and political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, puts the voices of the people most harmed by our system of mass incarceration at the...
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Rattling the Bars, hosted by former Black Panther and political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, puts the voices of the people most harmed by our system of mass incarceration at the center of our reporting on the fight to end it.
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18 NOV 2024 · "Who would want to lock somebody in a room the size of your bathroom and leave them in there for three years...and expect them to come out in the same condition that they went in? That's insanity."
A new bill in Washington, DC seeks to end the district’s use of solitary confinement in jails. https://therealnews.com/rattling-the-bars Mansa Musa speaks with two formerly incarcerated organizers: Herbert Robinson and Cinquan Umar Muhammad of the https://www.instagram.com/unlocktheboxnow/?hl=en campaign, which advocates for an end to the barbaric practice of solitary confinement around the country and to pass the new https://erasesolitary.com/.
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4 NOV 2024 · Since the 1990s, 2 million people with felony convictions have regained the right to vote, thanks to crucial reforms abolishing felony disenfranchisement in 26 states. This election, these voters could play a crucial role—and based on data from 2020, many of them prefer Trump. There's more to this story however, from incarcerated people's limited access to information, to the role of prisoners' race and even positive perceptions of Harris' gender in shaping incarcerated voters' preferences. Nicole Lewis, engagement editor for The Marshall Project joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her organization's findings and insights into the politics of prisoners.
Link to The Marshall Project report: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/10/17/election-voting-harris-trump-incarceration-poll
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31 OCT 2024 · Policing and prison abolition policy questions have been minimized in the lead-up to the 2024 November election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, despite their significance in the last election cycle. Yet these ideas have finally pierced into mainstream debate, and committed prison abolitionists are tirelessly organizing to free incarcerated people, improve conditions within the prison system, and close or prevent the opening of new correctional facilities. Rattling the Bars looks back on the past year of discussions with abolitionists on the stakes and political lessons leading up to November's presidential election.
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https://therealnews.com/freeher-activists-demand-biden-release-incarcerated-women-and-girls-ahead-of-mothers-day (May 2024)
https://therealnews.com/will-a-new-president-revive-the-use-of-clemency (Aug 2024)
https://therealnews.com/how-poor-and-working-class-voters-navigate-an-electoral-system-that-doesnt-serve-them(August 2024)
https://therealnews.com/under-prop-6-california-voters-could-finally-abolish-forced-prison-labor (Oct 2024)
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28 OCT 2024 · Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, including its prisons. Yet rather than evacuate incarcerated people, the state left prisoners locked up in their cells without running water or light to survive the storm on their own. https://x.com/schuy_ler, who recently covered this story for https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-mountain-view-prison/, speaks to Rattling the Bars about this manmade disaster and its consequences.
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23 OCT 2024 · This November, California voters will have the chance to pass Proposition 6. This ballot referendum would nullify the state constitution's exception for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime, and institute additional protections for incarcerated people. Jeronimo Aguilar of https://prisonerswithchildren.org/, and John Cannon of https://prisonerswithchildren.org/all-of-us-or-none/ join Rattling the Bars for a breakdown of Prop 6.
To learn more about Prop 6, visit https://voteyesprop6.com/
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30 SEP 2024 · For nearly half a century, Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz was a political prisoner of the United States. Prior to his incarceration, Shoatz fought against US capitalism and imperialism as a member of the Black Panther Party, and then as a soldier of the Black Liberation Army. Due to his two successful escapes from prison and organizing behind bars, Shoatz spent two decades in solitary confinement. Despite this brutal repression, Shoatz continued to struggle for liberation, leaving behind a trove of political writings that continue to inspire revolutionaries to this day. Shoatz's children, Russell Shoatz III and Sharon Shoatz, join Rattling the Bars for a discussion on his newly published memoir, co-written with Kanya D'Almeida, https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/russell-shoatz/i-am-maroon/9781645030492/.
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25 SEP 2024 · Researchers with https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCcUjdXzuKwrJCE-PFyxJXtw have made a https://colorofchange.org/press_release/color-of-change-statement-on-alameda-countys-racist-and-anti-semitic-death-penalty-scandal/: for decades, prosecutors in Alameda County, California, worked to systematically exclude Black and Jewish individuals from jury participation in order to produce juries that were more likely to support capital punishment. Michael Collins, Senior Director of Government Affairs at Color Of Change, joins Rattling the Bars for a revealing discussion on prosecutor misconduct, and what these findings tell us about the state of the criminal injustice system.
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16 SEP 2024 · The State of Missouri is scheduled to execute Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams on Sept. 24 for a crime that even prosecutors now say he did not commit. On Sept. 12, a Missouri judge denied a motion filed by prosecutors to vacate Williams’ conviction and death penalty. Despite more than half a million petition signatures demanding Williams be freed, Missouri is set to proceed with the execution. Michelle Smith, Co-Director of http://www.madpmo.org/, joins Rattling the Bars to explain Williams’ case and https://www.freekhaliifah.org/ before it’s too late.
Link to the campaign to free Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams: https://www.freekhaliifah.org
https://therealnews.com/in-8-days-missouri-could-execute-an-innocent-man
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12 SEP 2024 · The role of financial incentives in mass incarceration is often thought of in terms of the role of private contractors and private prisons. But the far greater financial incentive in mass incarceration comes from the public sector—the role of police in imposing fines and fees on local residents as a strategy to secure revenues for public budgets. This practice is happening all over the country, but now, https://finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/articles/hidden-price-of-justice-fines-and-fees-in-dcs-criminal-legal-system/ explores the extent of this perverse fiscal strategy in the nation’s capital, Washington DC. https://x.com/MikeJohnsonJr_ of the https://www.dcfpi.org/ joins Rattling the Bars to discuss this eye-opening report, “The Hidden Cost of Justice.”
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3 SEP 2024 · The housing and affordability crisis is getting worse, and more people around the country are facing the grim reality of homelessness. Rather than treating housing as a human right and committing to large-scale construction of accessible housing, states like California are responding with police raids of homeless encampments and imprisonment for unhoused people. On this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa discusses non-carceral solutions to the housing crisis with Zachary Murray and Estuardo Mazariegos of the https://www.acceaction.org/ (ACCE).
Maria Briones, Cal Matters, "https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/08/affordable-housing-funding-homelessness-solution/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjCbvYILMJ-8_wIw5M-PAw&utm_content=rundown
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