Too Black and Victoria Law join Rattling the Bars to discuss the campaign to free the Pendleton 2.
The Pendleton 2 were sentenced to more than 200 years for leading a prison uprising to stop racist KKK-affiliated guards from killing a man in 1985. John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter are still in prison 38 years later.
To learn more about the campaign to free the Pendleton 2, visit https://pendleton2.com
Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, host of The Black Myths Podcast on Black Power Media, and producer of The Last Dope Intellectual. Too Black is the communications director for the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2. He is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and can be reached at tooblack8808@gmail.com or @too_black_ on Twitter.
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender, and resistance. She’s the author of “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (2021) and the coauthor of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (2020).
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Is state prisn the same as federal prison?
I was trying to do some research on this subject and there were only about two stories about 3 guards being charged for beating a prisoner. I asked What is the government doing about the brutality going on at Pendleton and I couldn't find one topic about that. They are trying to hide it as much as possible. I also went to a site that said ask me anything and it was and AI robot that answered questions. After I asked two questions, it cut me off. They said they were not programmed to answer questions that encouraged controversy. It was crazy. If that is what we have to look forward to with AI be prepared to be lied to or brain washed. It looks like we have a long road to get justice for the prisoners. AI did say that there are organizations that represent prisoners for various reasons. There doesn't seem to be a loud enough demand for humane treatment for prisoners. What a shame. Prisons are treating prisoners like animals and they wonder why they reoffend when they come out. They have turned them into animals.
Every single time a judge gives an ex-defendant more than one life sentence, 100 years in prison sentence or more than 100 years in prison sentence they waste their breath as well as publicly humiliate themselves. Such conviction sentences make it sound like Earth is Krypton and that humans are immortal, invulnerable & indestructible. I get they want to be tough but it certainly won't kill them to just stick to reality.
The title of this video & the description info. of it meant to say "life in prison without parole"
These are devils out of control. No respect no emotion no communication it’s just pitiful.. as an American citizen, I will defend this country at the best of my ability.
I got some news for the abusers of this world.. Hell awaits and you are all headed to hell in a hand basket.. its coming for ya.. and nobody is going to shed even as much as a single tear when that happens.. what you are doing to others is actually what you are choosing for yourself..
Prisons what good do they really do?
Obviously we need some sort of correctional" facilities, that actually correct bad behavior, but what prison systems have become, are dehumanizing and encourages brutality, up to murder and cover up!
What we need are actual humane systems in place, the evil that these sick prison systems produce is even worse criminals, sadistic guards, rape, mayhem and murder, this does nothing but perpetuates more and more evil criminality!
Deep appreciation to each of you for your work in bringing awareness to the case of the Pendleton 2, and the entrenched, systemic,.racial injustices that endure in this — and in many other — penal institutions.
F'd Up beyond belief! I think every prisoner should have a pen pal from their community, I wonder would that accelerate the exposure of prisons in the US?
The government just want money! They don’t care about right and wrong
Injustice anywhere is Injustice everywhere. Truth.💖
The government has been using the JUSTICE SYSTEM to control us, instead of help us.
These thugs running our streets and shooting whom ever they want
I can't imagine what it is like on the inside.
I can't understand the people in your clips – I'm sorry. They are incoherent.
Overall, I agree with your points and those of your guests (mostly).
Free Julian Assange, everything will improve
Im in North Carolina, in Raleigh. My employer was willing to work with an organization that is "rehabilitating" former felons, in terms of getting a cashier job. I could not find an organization in Raleigh that was doing that. Does anyone have a connection?
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John Oliver's show last night covered solitary confinement, what its inhumanity does to man. The tragic clips John showed begged the question of the cost of a soul removed that often is never found again, as some lived with the confinement years after being released, many wrongly convicted serving decades. Besides crimes by prison guards on prisoners, that a KKK-run prison even exists is beyond freakin' insanity. It won't change; too much built into America's system and structure with corrupt and evil leaders helping run things for rich individuals and corporations (considered people by law). We're past the precipice of third world, where all of it's profitable for a few, so why change it
Damn thats phucked up
The guards had the Cancer of Hate. How easly they spread that plague to everybody around them and far beyond.