Patriot News Op Ed: Gov. Corbett's prison reform effort doesn't look much like 'justice' or 'reinvestment' at all

July 22, 2014 
By Ben Felker-Quinn and Ashley Henderson

As Gov. Tom Corbett made a spectacle last week of his own priorities for next year's budget, he seemed increasingly desperate to make good on unfulfilled promises.

The same could be said of his efforts at prison reform. For the fourth year in a row, Corbett pushed through a budget that significantly increases funding for Pennsylvania's prison system, sending an additional $78 million to the Department of Corrections.

Hearts on a Wire on DPA Radio

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Sunday, June 22, 2014
 
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This week we had a prerecorded interview with some of the Hearts on a Wire Collective talking about their campaigns, report on trans and gender variant people in Pennsylvania prisons, and the newsletter they send inside prisons. The Voices from the Inside segment featured poetry from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project Prisoner Advisory Committee Blog.

For more information, check out: www.facebook.com/hearts.wire

Dining Hall Protest: Prisoners Challenge Food Cutbacks at SCI Coal Township

On June 16, 2014 prisoners at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Coal Township in central Pennsylvania are embarking on a peaceful protest of the dining hall by refusing to go to eat due to the administration’s cutback to their food portions and rations. 

Prisoners are once again taking the lead in the struggle for human rights. Support them today by calling the officials below and advocating for their demands.

Institute for Community Justice on DPA Radio

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Saturday, March 15, 2014
 
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Hannah Zellman shouting fiercely

This week Theresa Sullivan and Hannah Zellman (pictured above) rep their innovative prison entry organization work the Institute for Community Justice. They talk struggles of coming out of prison with HIV, mentoring prisoners to become community organizers and activists, Prison Health news. fighting to ban the box, and much more...

Where do PA's gubernatorial candidates stand on mass incarceration?

Decarcerate PA has been gathering information on where Pennsylvania's gubernatorial candidates stand on issues related to mass incarceration. Our purpose is not to endorse a specific candidate, but to provide informations to voters and to push all the candidates to take a stand against the policies and practices that drive mass imprisonment in this state. There is a large and growing movement in PA to stop prison expansion and repeal the so-called "tough on crime" policies that have led to a prison population that tops 51,000 and a corrections budget of more than $2 billion.

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