In near darkness, a local rapper stands on a Nashville stage. Backlit, he cuts an imposing figure, broad-shouldered and burly. The lights come up to reveal a robe-clad chorus and a black-clad band behind Antioch native Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord, his face tattoos and mullet-hawk …
Read MoreZeke Caligirui on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class
Writer and editor Zeke Caligiuri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, a new collection of essays on class he co-edited along with eleven other incarcerated writers. The volume’s contributors include Eula Biss, Kao Kalia Yang, Lacy M. …
Read MoreZeke Caligiuri on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class
Writer and editor Zeke Caligiuri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, a new collection of essays on class he co-edited along with eleven other incarcerated writers. The volume’s contributors include Eula Biss, Kao Kalia Yang, Lacy M. …
Read MoreGovernor Newsom Announces Appointments 11.15.23
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Chris Chambers, of Lincoln, has been appointed Director of Correctional Policy Research and Internal Oversight at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has served as Deputy Director of the Office of Research …
Read MoreIn Russia, more Kremlin critics are being imprisoned as intolerance of dissent grows
Sasha Skochilenko, a 33 year-old artist and musician, second left, is escorted by officers to the court room for a hearing in the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. A court in St Petersburg has to deliver a verdict to …
Read MoreRussian artist sentenced to 7 years in prison for anti-war messages
Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 and charged with spreading false information about the military after replacing price tags with ones that decried Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for …
Read MoreWomen’s Prisons in Egypt: Testimonies of Cruelty Behind Concrete
There is one singular yearning that haunts the mind of every prisoner during detention. What unfolds beyond the cold walls that confine us, while we endure an oppressive solitude within? How have the streets we used to frequent changed, and what tales do they now …
Read MoreRussian artist sentenced to 7 years in prison for anti-war messages
Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 and charged with spreading false information about the military after replacing price tags with ones that decried Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for …
Read MoreDavenport man sentenced to federal prison for drug charges
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) – A Davenport man was sentenced on Nov. 9 to 27 years in federal prison for drug charges. Art Eugene Thomas, 35, is charged with conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and distribution of a mixture and substance containing …
Read MoreDavenport Man Sentenced to 27 years in Prison for Conspiracy and Distribution of Methamphetamine and Cocaine
DAVENPORT, Iowa – A Davenport man was sentenced on November 9, 2023, to 27 years in federal prison for Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine, and Distribution of a Mixture and Substance Containing Methamphetamine and Cocaine. According to court documents and evidence …
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