Sunday Sites #2

Last night I was walking home from dinner and drinks and as I came closer to my apartment, a guy on a motorcycle was hit by a car and thrown several feet. I've lived in Mexico over a year now and it's only the second accident I've seen. Anyway, walking by, he seemed pretty hurt, though he lifted his head to scream in pain, so I think he will be ok. I kept walking, and I came to a path that leads into a small subdivision and this woman was running down the path, holding her baby, not too much older than my son, and the look on her face was that of terror and worry. I knew she was the wife of the man on the motorcycle. I felt so bad for her, but that look in her yes, that look of sheer concern for another human being's life is just such a beautiful thing when I spend my days reading about the death penalty and the corrupt criminal justice system sending hundreds, probably thousands of innocent men and women to prison. Such a contrast.

Anyway. It is Sunday, and here are some sites:

• Angola 3: The Case
  
  36 years ago, deep in rural Louisiana, three young black men were silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation called Angola.
  
  Peaceful, non-violent protest in the form of hunger and work strikes organized by inmates, caught the attention of Louisiana's first black elected legislators and local media in the early 1970s.[2] State legislative leaders, along with the administration of a newly-elected, reform-minded governor, called for investigations into a host of unconstitutional practices and the extraordinarily cruel and unusual treatment commonplace in the prison. In 1972 and 1973 prison officials, determined to put an end to outside scrutiny, charged Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, and Robert King with murders they did not commit and threw them into 6x9 foot cells in solitary confinement, for nearly 36 years. Robert was freed in 2001, but Herman and Albert remain behind bars.



• More on the Angola 3


• Prison Legal News - Dedicated to protecting Human Rights


• lifespark - writing against the death penalty
  lifespark is a Swiss organization founded in 1993. One of its main goals is to arrange penpalships to inmates on death row in the USA.


• Advocate 4 Justice - Giving non-violent offenders a second chance at life and freedom

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