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From KOMO News: TACOMA, Wash. – Immigrant-rights activists rallied outside the Northwest Detention Center on Saturday, while at least 750 detainees protested their treatment and called for an end to deportations with a hunger strike. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department said on Saturday morning that 750 detainees had refused to eat and said […]
Written by Sarah Jeong, adapted by Susie Cagle. You can follow Sarah andSusie on Twitter. 
By Sarah Lazare, staff writer with Common Dreams: In the cells of a segregated “high security unit” at a southern Illinois prison, men have taken the step of going without food to protest their isolation and inhumane treatment at the hands of “corrections” authorities. About a dozen people who are incarcerated at the the state-run […]
By Nicole Dungca of the Oregonian: Portland Public Schools teachers have authorized the first strike in the history of Oregon’s largest school system and set a walkout date: Feb. 20. Nearly 3,000 Portland Association of Teachers members gathered behind closed doors at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Wednesday and emerged after about an hour with a firm yes vote […]
By Christina Rose of Indian Country: This Date in Native History: On January 29, 1863, 450 Northwestern Shoshone were killed along the Bear River, near present day Preston, Idaho, in perhaps the largest massacre in United States history. Chief Bear Hunter’s band of Northern Shoshone spent the cold months in Utah Territory where they and other […]
By Shawn Carrié of the New School Free Press: In the brisk January air, Lang student Gerald “Jerry” Koch ran out into the cold, wearing prison sweats and cotton slippers, to his attorney’s office, just after calling his mother to tell her he was free, according to a post on Facebook by New York Year Zero. After Koch […]
By Brendan Kiley of The Stranger: A couple of hours ago, a King County Superior Court judge declined to press charges against a young man named Brendan McCormack who had been accused of vandalizing bank ATMs in the Capitol Hill area late last year. There was not enough evidence, the judge said, to link McCormack […]
by Joaquin Sapien of ProPublica: A new Justice Department study shows that allegations of sex abuse in the nation’s prisons and jails are increasing — with correctional officers responsible for half of it — but prosecution is still extremely rare. The report, released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, takes data collected by correctional administrators representing all of […]
An anarchist analysis of surveillance in New Orleans, by Jules Bentley of Antigravity: Several years ago I had the opportunity to spend the afternoon of Mardi Gras on a Bourbon Street balcony. It’s no business of mine how others choose to pass their Mardi Gras, but the crowd below didn’t look happy. They looked frantic and uneasy. […]
By ANSEL HERZ of The Stranger: Former Washington State Patrol (WSP) officer Kim Triplett-Kolerich now works for Bank of America as the company’s “West Region” Senior Crime and US Intelligence Analyst. She’s based in downtown Seattle. Here’s what she does with her time, according to an email she wrote to WSP in November, unearthed by public records activist Andrew Hendricks: […]