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[coconutjamwastaken]

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[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Congress

👮Pass the The End Solitary Confinement Act!

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Last week, U.S. Senators Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Peter Welch introduced the End Solitary Confinement Act, companion legislation to HR 4972 introduced in the House of Representatives by Missouri Rep. Cori Bush in July. This bill would end solitary confinement in all federal custody and incentivize states and localities to do the same. The End Solitary Confinement Act is a product of years of advocacy and activism from campaigns across the country led by people who have survived solitary and had loved ones inside, and draws from the best policy components of enacted and pending legislation. Specifically, the End Solitary Confinement Act does four key things: End all forms of solitary confinement, ensure that all alternatives to solitary are *actual* alternatives, enhance due process protections, and create oversight and enforcement mechanisms. Over 175 organizations nationwide have already endorsed the End Solitary Confinement Act and I hope you will as well. Solitary confinement is torture. We must end this barbaric practice. Thanks.

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[anniekoh]

How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary

As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to face his future.

[Woodfox] was extradited to New Orleans and placed on the Panther Tier at the Orleans Parish Prison. Eighteen members of the Black Panther Party, waiting to be tried for shoot-outs with the police, held classes on politics, economics, sociology, and the history of slavery. Steel plates had been affixed to their windows so that they couldn’t communicate with prisoners on other tiers. Malik Rahim, the defense minister of the New Orleans chapter of the Party, told me, “They thought they were separating us, but everywhere we went that infectious disease called organizing was taking hold.” They ripped apart Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” and divided it into sections, so that each inmate could study a chapter and teach the others what he’d learned.

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When Woodfox arrived [at Angola Prison], black and white inmates lived separately, in cinder-block compounds, and the cafeteria was divided by a wooden partition, to keep the races apart. Every guard at Angola was white. Woodfox and two other inmates he’d met at the Orleans Parish Prison requested permission from the Panthers’ Central Committee, in Oakland, to establish a chapter of the Party at Angola—the only recognized chapter founded on prison grounds. The new Panthers encouraged the other prisoners, who cut crops for two cents an hour, to work more slowly. Woodfox said, “It was this macho thing where the guys would deliberately work at a fast pace to show off how masculine they were, and we’d explain to them that all they’re going to do is take you to another field.”

A few times a week, a group of nearly fifty men pretended to play football while discussing how to conduct themselves as revolutionaries. Woodfox, who now described himself as a “dialectical materialist,” summarized what he’d learned from the Party’s list of some thirty required books, by writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Michael Harrington, and Marcus Garvey.

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At the [National Lawyers Guild] conference, Woodfox had felt himself being turned into a mythological figure, a process that he found uncomfortable. “All these people who have been involved in social struggle for so long want to shake my hand,” he told me. “I don’t have an emotional connection as to what the big deal is. Sometimes I just don’t think that, you know, surviving solitary confinement for forty-one years is a big deal.” I asked if that was a coping mechanism, and he said, “Pretty much everything I did for the last forty-four years was some sort of coping mechanism.”

He said that, in the early two-thousands, inmates at Angola began telling him, “Thanks for not letting them break you.” It was the first time he grasped that, by staying sane, he had done something unusual.

King, who was eating a piece of toast with jelly, recalled one of the first protests in C.C.R., when the Panthers persuaded inmates to refuse the strip search. After a few days, King had realized that inmates were being beaten so badly that they could die, and he wrote a letter to Woodfox recommending that they end the protest. “It is the man who creates the principles,” he wrote. “The principles shouldn’t kill the man.”

[ofgraveconcern]

25th October 1829, opening of Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, the first solitary confinement system prison in the United States. Designed in the neo gothic style by the English-born architect John Haviland, the building’s gothic religious aesthetics were intended to impose upon the inmates the feel of a church in which their total restriction from others would result in religious penance, piety and fear; with the light in their cells termed the "Eye of God". The architectural style was influenced by the same aesthetics used throughout England in the 1780’s, for asylums and prisons, again with the same quasi religious medievalism in mind. The solitary system at Eastern State lasted until 1913, and the prison closed in 1970, whereupon it sat slowly crumbling, with its memories and ghosts, until it was opened to the public in 1994. Prior to its opening, a prison reform group was formed by Dr. Benjamin Rush in 1787, Rush also is known as the "father of American psychiatry, for his work ‘Observations and Inquiries upon the Diseases of the Mind’, published in 1812. Rush also as recently highlighted, was the inventor of the ‘the tranquilizer chair’ for use in asylums. Another member of the prison reform group was Benjamin Franklin. In 1842 while touring the eastern US, Charles Dickens visited the prison, later commenting "The System is rigid, strict and hopeless solitary confinement, and I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong...." and further "He is a man buried alive; to be dug out in the slow round of years; and in the mean time dead to everything but torturing anxieties and horrible despair." The theme of prisons appears (Continued in the comments) #easternstatepenitentiary #solitaryconfinement #neogothic #neogothicarchitecture #eyeofgod #benjaminfranklin #charlesdickens #macabremonday #macabremondays #mentalasylum #asylum #benjaminrush #historyofmadness #historyofmentalhealth #mentalhealthweek #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #psychiatry #historyofpsychology #historyofpsychiatry #prisonhistory #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #madnessart #darkhistory #historicalstory #historytales #historicalplaces #morbidhistory #darktales https://www.instagram.com/p/CVdTUFQFIJp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[franklong12]

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[naughtydred]

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