Posted in Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on Jun 21st, 2010
Will Potter discusses the prison-within-a-prison Communications Management Units (CMUs) designed to silence non-violent activist prisoners, and why the erosion of individual rights (even of prisoners) negatively affects us all.
Posted in Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on May 11th, 2010
Andy Stepanian of the SHAC 7 speaks out against secretive prisons called Communication Management Units.
Posted in Legal Issues on May 3rd, 2010
The federal Bureau of Prisons has quietly submitted a proposal to make the secretive, political prisons called Communications Management Units permanent.
As part of that process, there is a required public comment period, where individuals and organizations can register their opposition. This is a process required by the Administrative Procedures Act, and it should have [...]
Posted in Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on Apr 16th, 2010
This week we learned that the government has proposed making secretive prisons for “domestic terrorists,” which have been operating for 3 years on U.S. soil, permanent.
In this video Rachel Meeropol and Alexis Agathocleous, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discuss the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Communications Management Units, or CMUs:
Posted in Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on Apr 14th, 2010
Secretive political prisons for “domestic terrorists” called Communications Management Units have been operating for more than three years on U.S. soil. Last week the federal Bureau of Prisons quietly submitted a proposal to make the experimental units permanent: a process that, by law, should have occurred before they were ever opened.
As a quick introduction, there [...]
Posted in Activists Arrested, Legal Issues on Apr 5th, 2010
Photo from Flickr's antonychammond under Creative Commons license.Last week the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of multiple inmates housed in secretive prison facilities on U.S. soil called Communications Management Units. The suit is in addition to one previously filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, and marks an increased pressure on [...]
Posted in Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on Oct 2nd, 2009
Jeff “Free” Luers was released from prison early today after a Lane County Circuit Court Judge signed a supplemental judgment granting him an additional 30 percent reduction in his total incarceration time. In 2001, Luers was sentenced to 22 years, 8 months in prison for burning three SUVs in the name of defending the environment. [...]
Posted in Activists Arrested, Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on Jun 25th, 2009
This morning Andy Stepanian and I were on Democracy Now talking about secretive political prisons called Communications Management Units. Stepanian is believed to be the first inmate ever released from one of the secretive facilities; he is one of the SHAC 7, a group of animal rights activists convicted of “animal enterprise terrorism” for running [...]
Posted in Activists Arrested, Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on Apr 17th, 2009
I was on Democracy Now this morning talking about my investigation of Communication Management Units, secretive prison facilities housing inmates of being tied to “terrorism” groups. They overwhelmingly include Muslim inmates, along with at least two animal rights and environmental activists. Here’s the video from the segment.
It was really an honor to be on the [...]
Posted in Activists Arrested, Legal Issues on Apr 14th, 2009
Welcome to everyone visiting from Democracy Now, Digg, BoingBoing, Reddit and elsewhere! After you read this article, you can learn more about the Green Scare, and other attacks on civil liberties in the name of fighting “terrorism.” Thank you!
The government is using secretive prison facilities on U.S. soil, called Communication Management Units, to house inmates [...]
The War on Terrorism has come home. Corporations and politicians are labeling activists "eco-terrorists" and national security threats. Think red-baiting, with a green twist. Here you'll find original reporting and analysis of the Green Scare, and history repeating itself.