“Our community members behind bars are extremely vulnerable because we can’t see what’s happening to them. The state thinks that this is a license to abuse...
“Throughout history, forced sterilizations have been used as a means of controlling undesirable populations, immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally...
“As the national conversation around police violence unfolds, we must shine a light on the violence happening behind the walls, too,” write organizers in a statement....
“There is a reason why no name is attached to this letter. The fear of retaliation with solitary confinement and other forms of physical and verbal...
“You defund social services all the time. You defund schools. You defund hospitals, community health centers, programs for low-incomes communities all the time. You are experts...
“23+ hour lockdown must end immediately. Release to the public an updated plan to restore educational programming, visitation and socially distanced recreation time within state and...
“We’re not asking for special treatment, but only for that which is fair and humane.“ A coalition of directly-impacted groups including the Formerly Incarcerated Union, IWOC,...
“We’ve tested all the workers, all the inmates,” said Governor Gina Raimondo at Friday’s COVID-19 press briefing. “We’ll continue to do that on a somewhat cyclical...
“Three inmates from the Minimum Security Facility tested positive for COVID-19 today as part of our routine surveillance testing of the facility. The three inmates are...
“She was one of the positive cases out in the community and was brought in to our facility to wait arraignment…” The Rhode Island Department of...