Copwatching
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BPP Serve the People Programs
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Give The Pigs Their Jobs Back: Resistance IS Key – The Passive Approach Just Isn’t Working In Texas Prisons (by Jason Renard Walker)
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has been operating as a money making business, run by corrupt wardens and administrative personnel, since the beginning of the 20th century.
This revolving door style of bad actors in high places … Read the rest
Texas prison workforce: A model of profit, modern slavery, and humiliation (by Jason Renard Walker)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 4 specifically abolishes slavery in all its functioning forms: “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the state trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” Well, to the … Read the rest
We Need to Talk About All Aspects of Racism (by Tom Watts)
We need to talk about all kinds of racism and about racism in general, because it is all reactionary and all serves to perpetuate inequality and class exploitation. If we are serious about ending racism, we have got to understand … Read the rest
Endangered Species: The Lynching of the Black and Brown Youth (by Kelvin Khaysi Canada, NABPP-PC, 2016)
“If you can’t believe what they are doing to us today. You have no idea of what they did to us yesterday.” – Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
There is an old proverb that states: “If you don’t learn from the … Read the rest
Believe it or not: Texas prisoners are finally resisting modern day slave labor
Whether you believe it or not! Some Texas prisoners have gone on a work strike and are proving that they can unite like prisoners in California and Alabama. The last time something this big happened in TDCJ was in the … Read the rest
Who’s Lying Now? Official Records Show Texas Officials Are Murdering Prisoners
Introduction
“They’re lying!” It’s almost a reflex response whenever prisoners expose abusive practices of their keepers. Then come the appeals to prejudice: We’ve been convicted of crimes they say, which implies we simply shouldn’t be believed; as if everybody in … Read the rest
Another Texas Prisoner Dead, Another Official Coverup – Prison Officials Killed Alton Rodgers
31 year old Alton Rodgers, a Black man imprisoned at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, Texas, died on January 19, 2016, at the Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo. He was found unconscious in his cell the day before by … Read the rest
Texas Bans Prisoners from Social Media to Hide Abuses
Suddenly Texas prison officials are banning prisoners from having people outside of prison maintain social media accounts for them. Since prisoners do not otherwise have direct access to the internet we can’t manage our own social-media accounts. Officials are taking … Read the rest