(2022-04-16). Mayo Clinic, Rochester branch of NAACP seek mentors for RISE for Youth program. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org This summer, 40 high school and college students will be the first participants in RISE for Youth, a strategic collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP. The program is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. "Not all students have the same opportunities to realize their full potential," says Dr. Anjali Bhagra, medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion….
(2022-04-16). Overcrowding, shortage of doctors and lack of water: living through pandemic in Sà£o Paulo's prisons. peoplesdispatch.org From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic until January 2022, at least 15,586 prisoners have been infected with the virus in the state of Sà£o Paulo. Of these, 80 have died. In the first year of the pandemic, the State government of Joà£o Doria (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB) decided to make cuts to the budgets allocated for prisoners' healthcare and hygiene products worth R$ 14 million (USD 3 million) and R$ 31 million (USD 6.5 million), respectively. | During the first five months of 2021 alone, COVID-19 deaths in Sà£o Paulo's prisoner population exceeded the total number of deaths…
(2022-04-15). Michigan Lawmakers Must Protect the Rights of Children and Join the Global Consensus. aclu.org 
As of April 15, 2022, I have spent 12,075 days behind bars for a 1989 crime I was convicted of committing at age 15. It would be the first and only arrest during my childhood. Since then, I have languished behind bars for more than two-thirds of my life, living in a veritable penal tomb. | I am one of 363 people in Michigan sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) for crimes committed as children — sometimes called "juvenile lifers." I am also the first person in Berrien County, Michigan to be charged under a 1988 law that empowered prosecutors to automatically transfer children to be tried and sentenced…
(2022-04-15). Black Lives Matter purchases $6 million property with donation money. wsws.org The 6,500 square-foot mansion was purchased in October 2020 without being disclosed to the public or even the group's donors.
(2022-04-15). The Triumph Of A Pedagogy Of The Oppressed In Progress. popularresistance.org It is very interesting and important how Francia has learned to be respectful and coherent in echoing the voices of the people, instead of the phony politicking to which we are used to. The enormous growth in her political narrative is not only due to her beautiful and natural intelligence, (not in vain blessed by [the Orisha] Orunmila). It's also fundamentally due thanks to her life experience as a Being who has suffered all the forms of oppression, against which she rosed up in rebellion, allowing her a capacity for listening and transcending words in action and deeds, resonating in those of us who come from th…
(2022-04-15). Gross negligence in for-profit prison health care. workers.org 
By law, people in prison have a right to get the health care they need. In the late 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court decision Estelle v Gamble set the standard for medical rights of prisoners. But prison authorities are being criminally negligent in not providing adequate health care to incarcerated . . . |
(2022-04-15). 16 April, Brighton: Stand to Free all Palestinian Prisoners. samidoun.net 
Saturday, 16 April | 12-2 pm | Clocktower | Brighton, England | More info: Organized by Brighton PSC — stand in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners…
(2022-04-15). 16 April, Gothenburg: Rally to free all Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net 
Saturday, 16 April | 2 pm | Brunnsparken | Gothenburg, Sweden | Facebook: Manifestation fà∂r alla palestinska fà•ngars frihet | — Frihet à•t alla palestinska fà•ngar | — Slut pà• repressionen mot Palestina i Europa…
(2022-04-15). Alex Saab case: Imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat contests extraterritorial judicial abuse. workers.org 
Alex Saab The following article was published April 11 in Dissident Voice. Roger D. Harris is with Task Force on the Americas. April 11 — Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab's case took a dramatic turn as his legal defense team denounced the U.S. government's flagrant failure to respect long-standing diplomatic immunity . . . |
(2022-04-15). Court dismisses Mabirizi's application for transfer from Luzira prison. plusnews.ug 
The Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate's Court has dismissed Male Mabirizi's application for transfer from Luzira Maximum Security Upper Prison to Kitalya Mini Max Prison. Mabirizi made the application early this week when he appeared before the Buganda Road Court Grade One Magistrate, Sanula Nambozo, where he is battling charges of offensive communication instituted by Robert …