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Jails and PrisonsMarch 8, 2023
When Force-Feeding Is Torture
After years of litigation, The Nation and Type Investigations have acquired footage of a force-feeding at a federal prison. It shows treatment that may amount to torture.
Aviva Stahl
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Criminal JusticeDecember 27, 2022
Brittney Griner Faced Brutal Conditions in Jail—but So Did Viktor Bout
Amid all the reporting on the Griner-Bout prison swap, almost no one thought to cover what Bout experienced during his 12 years of US imprisonment.
Aviva Stahl and Jeanne Theoharis
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Jails and PrisonsJune 4, 2019
Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading—and American Prisons Won’t Stop
In a Colorado supermax facility, hunger-striking inmates have been force-fed and barred from sharing their ordeal with the outside world. A prisoner breaks his silence for the first time.
Aviva Stahl
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ActivismSeptember 8, 2016
Were these College Students Targeted for Disciplinary Action Because of their Pro-Palestine Politics?
Sarah Aly and Tom DeAngelis were well-known activists with Brooklyn College’s Students for Justice in Palestine. Then they were falsely accused of anti-Semitism.
Aviva Stahl
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ActivismMay 30, 2014
Why Are Queer Activists and Muslim Scholars Holding Vigils Outside a Manhattan Prison?
As young Muslim men disappear into US prisons for “pre-crimes” they haven’t committed, activists demand justice.
Aviva Stahl
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Foreign PolicyFebruary 28, 2014
How a British Citizen Was Stripped of His Citizenship, Then Sent to a Manhattan Prison
Britain’s citizenship deprivation processes may help obscure the Obama administration’s willingness to kill and kidnap Britons.
Aviva Stahl
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July 3, 2013
The Powerful Lesson of New York’s Police Oversight Law
The recent passage of the Community Safety Act proves that diverse coalitions can defeat the politics of divide-and-conquer.
Aviva Stahl