Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs warns Kanye West to ‘be careful’ of people trying to ‘end’ them on prison call https://www.inbella.com/956885/sean-diddy-combs-warns-kanye-west-to-be-careful-of-people-trying-to-end-them-on-prison-call/ #CelebritiesNews #CelebrityFriendships #CelebrityNews #KanyeWest #music #prison #Rappers #Sean'Diddy'Combs
what crimes put you in the nicest American #prison
#ICYMI: A transgender prisoner held in solitary confinement reports on the growing usage of Tasers against the most vulnerable of the incarcerated in #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/
Like #russia, the #US is no longer safe for tourists. In just the last two weeks, US authorities have detained two individuals: #Welsh citizen Becky Burke and Fabian Schmidt, a #German national who has been a US permanent resident since 2008.
Burke was held in a "#prison-like" #ICE processing center, while Schmidt was "violently interrogated."
Burke stated, "They keep saying in all their booklets that this is not a prison. It's hard to distinguish from my conception of a prison."
Dispatch from the inside: A prisoner in solitary watches as guards use Tasers on a naked, mentally-ill woman in a shower, and reflects on their increasingly brutal use in the #Texas correctional system. https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/
“In solitary confinement, many prisoners suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and psychosis that are exacerbated by prolonged isolation. Those suffering from schizophrenia and other mental diseases are target practice for the Tasers on a daily basis.” https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/
Death penalty update: On March 11, the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed David Wood’s execution. The court has not yet announced whether it will send the case back to the trial court to review the evidence of Wood’s innocence.
https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/
“The blues-punk-psychedelic jammers of Prison return with a bigger line-up and shorter songs in Downstate,” writes Jennifer Kelly. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/777655082156195840/prison-downstate-drag-city #music #prison
“They were accusing me of every unsolved crime on the planet.”
Despite numerous oversights and concerns with his case highlighted by his attorneys, David Wood is scheduled to be executed on Thursday. https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/
#DeathPenalty #CriminalJustice #politics #USpol #news #Texas #prison #HumanRights
A proposed new law in Texas, by Republican Tom Oliverson, would make it illegal in that state to identify as trans, which he's calling "Gender Identity Fraud." The law would punish people who identify as trans with up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Probably not long before Trump tries to do the same on a federal level. Whoops, he kinda already did with passports.
And with his illegal transferring of trans women prisoners into male prisons, in violation of several court orders. There are already reports of sexual assaults against these women.
Remember, first they came for the trans folks, and undocumented immigrants, and people didn't speak up because they weren't one of them.
Then they came for documented immigrants and those with legal residency because they spoke out against the Genocide in Gaza; as well as cis women of color, because they didn't conform to white, bourgeois ideals of femininity.
No one is free unless we ALL are free.
Jailhouse snitch testimony is considered a red flag by many legal experts. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 256 people who have been exonerated of felonies in the United States since 1989 were convicted in a case using jailhouse informant testimony. Sixteen were from #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/
American prisons run on forced labor. For @bolts, historian Robert Chase answered reader questions about the legal basis for paying incarcerated people below minimum wage, whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in these circumstances, who has the authority to stop prison labor, and more.
https://boltsmag.org/the-past-and-present-of-prison-labor-your-questions-answered/
Court filings reveal a bombshell: A former cellmate of one of the informants said he knows that the story the state used to convict Wood—the purported jailhouse confession—was made up with the help of El Paso police.
https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/
#Trump officials to reopen #Texas *#detention center* for #immigrant #families
Four years after the #Biden admin stopped detaining migrant #children, a private #prison contractor says it has reached an agreement with #ICE to reopen the South Texas Family *Residential* Center in #Dilley, TX.
#immigration #law #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #CivilRights #CrimesAgainstHumanity #InternationalLaw #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/05/dilley-texas-family-detention-center-ice/
Shouldn't Navarro be in #Prison?
Yeah, that’s gonna happen:
#Trump admin says #undocumented immigrants must *register*
The Trump admin will require all unauthorized immigrants in the United States who are 14 & older to register w/the federal government or face #civil & #criminal penalties, including up to $1k in fines & up to 6 months in #prison.
#immigration #law #USpol #Nazi #NurembergLaws #YellowStar #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/25/trump-administration-undocumented-immigrants-register/
…#Apple's announcement comes days after #TimCook met w/ #Trump in the Oval Office.
[I wonder if Trump threatened Cook with #prison time like he did #Zuckerberg.]
The #manufacturing academy follows Apple opening its Apple #Developer Academy in #Detroit in 2021.
By the time #Trump assumed power, #Zuckerberg was lavishing him w/praise. “We now have a US admin that is proud of our leading companies,” he gushed of the man who had…threatened him w/ #prison, “that prioritizes American technology winning. And that will defend our values & interests abroad.” His rehabilitation complete, Zuckerberg assumed a place of pride at Trump’s inauguration, alongside #JeffBezos, #ElonMusk, & other [#oligarchs].…
Because #Trump had recently warned, “We are watching [Zuckerberg] closely, & if he does anything *illegal*” during Trump’s 2nd term, “he will spend the rest of his life in #prison,” this opportunity must have sounded enticing. #Zuckerberg indicated that he would not in any way obstruct Trump’s agenda, acc/to the Times, & foisted blame for any prior offenses onto subordinates.
