Bret Grote (an investigator with the Human Rights Coalition, a Pennsylvania-based prison abolitionist and prisoner rights organisation) and
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Kanya D’Almeida (an editor for the Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency, currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka) wrote an excellent article for Al-Jazeera on prison conditions in the USA and even more on the political and racial aspects. It is not directly related to HRDs but touches on the important question of the severe treatment handed out to ‘jailhouse’ lawyers or those prisoners who take on the risky job of defending fellow inmates. |
for the full piece see: Solitary confinement: Torture chambers for black revolutionaries – Opinion – Al Jazeera English.
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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 