Note: Edwin Rubis wrote this piece from solitary confinement on April 17, 2025, his thirteenth day in “the hole.” My 13th day in “the hole” has been an eye opener. This is the first time I’ve experienced it after 28 years in federal prison. I was sent here for breaking a prison rule — sending...
This article has been excerpted from Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver. Copyright © 2025. This text was originally published by The New Press and has been reprinted here with permission. In 1998, I was eighteen years old when I shot and killed a...
Aleem Maqbool Religion Editor Gupreet Singh Johal Jagtar Singh Johal (right) with his brother Gurpreet A British Sikh who has been imprisoned in India on terror charges for more than seven years has now been moved into solitary confinement, according to his brother and a human rights group. Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was detained...