Medical emergencies routinely go unattended for weeks or even months. The food is frequently unfit for human consumption. Pods are overcrowded, with cells serving for six men at a time. Prisoners are beaten by guards. In one case, ten guards savagely beat a handcuffed prisoner into unconsciousness.
Phones are commonly out of order, making contact with families and lawyers impossible.
The purpose of this web site is to collect letters over the Internet and deliver them to activists still behind bars who are demanding greater democracy. On July 29, the DNC adopted a strong anti-labor platform asking labor to support passage of fast track and strengthening of the WTO, and rejecting universal health care and a living wage. Labor will be in the streets in full force at the D2K protests to send a message that it will NOT roll over for the corporate free-trade agenda. The details of as many as 277 possible domestic-violence related crimes involving Los Angeles police officers were posted on the Internet on Friday. An outline describing LAPD's assortment of incendiary devices, chemical agents, and various ballistics on hand to tame protestors at the Democratic National Convention.