restofworld.org > Phil Jones
Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon
22 sep. 2021 - Big tech relies on the victims of economic collapse.
 · amazon · google · kenia · labour · lebanon · m2work · microwork · palestine · platforms · prisons · racist-technology · refugees · tesla

www.parool.nl > Joost Broeren-Huitenga
In Un triomphe spelen gevangenen het toneelstuk Wachten op Godot
22 sep. 2021 - In het deels waargebeurde Un triomphe brengt een workshop voor gevangenen onvermoed ­acteertalent aan het licht. De Franse filmmaker Emmanuel Courcol (63) analyseerde hiervoor eerst het stuk Wachten op Godot van Samuel Beckett.
 · movies · prisons · theatre

www.parool.nl > Tom Kieft
Iraanse topfunctionaris bevestigt martelingen in gevangenis na beeldhack
25 aug. 2021 - Marteling, afranseling en ondervoeding. Verhalen over de wreedste mishandelingen in de beruchte Iraanse Evingevangenis waren er al jaren, maar werden altijd van hogerhand ontkend. Tot nu, na de openbaring van gehackte beelden uit de instelling in Teheran.
 · iran · prisons · torture

pluralistic.net > Cory Doctorow
Prisoners' Inventions
9 jun. 2021 - 2003's PRISONERS INVENTIONS is an underground classic, a high-stakes precursor to MAKE Magazine, combining ingenuity, adversarial interoperability, and user-centered design. After 13 years out of print, Half Letter Press published a new, expanded edition.
 · adversarial-interoperability · interoperability · invention · prisons

logicmag.io > Sarah T. Hamid
Community Defense: Sarah T. Hamid on Abolishing Carceral Technologies
31 aug. 2020 - A conversation about how to break cages.
 · abolition · academia · accountability · algorithmic-bias · black-struggle · epistemology · facial-recognition · fairness · military-industrial-complex · motorola · police · police-overreach · police-violence · predictive-policing · prison-reform · prisons · privacy · racist-technology · solidarity · surveillance · transparency · united-states

www.theatlantic.com > Ed Yong
How the Pandemic Defeated America
3 aug. 2020 - A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
 · academia · architecture · black-struggle · china · conspiracy-thinking · covid-19 · culture · healthcare · individualism · inequality · misinformation · pandemics · police-violence · prisons · sick-buildings · technology · trust · united-states

www.nybooks.com > Michelle Kuo
What Replaces Prisons?
20 aug. 2020 - Sociologists tend to agree that the threat of harsh prison conditions or lengthy sentences doesn’t act as a deterrent to crime. Studies are particularly decisive on the issue of juvenile crime, showing that prisons effectively serve as “schools” in which young people become criminals. In many states, up to 80 percent will be rearrested within three years of getting out of jail. What would a world with a vastly reduced reliance on prisons and police look like?
 · australia · black-struggle · justice · new-zealand · prison-reform · prisons · restorative-justice · south-africa · united-states