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Supermax prisoners are typically confined to their cell for at least 23 hours a day and permitted to leave only to shower or exercise in an outdoor cage. These prisoners receive their meals through slots in their doors and are shackled whenever they leave their cells...
Galluccio, a former Cambridge mayor, was arrested in October 2009 for a hit-and-run accident which injured two individuals. Within three days of his sentence of house arrest, he violated his probation by failing a series of breathalyzer tests. He was sentenced to a year in jail and resigned his Senate seat a day later...
Trumka—who spoke earlier in the day at the study group of his AFL-CIO predecessor, current IOP Resident Fellow John Sweeney—said that the labor movement provides necessary organization and political voice for workers who do not feel the system is on their side...
...King been at that Seder, he would have taken his turn around the table reading and discussing passages from the Biblical Exodus. King and Heschel might have recalled the day they marched from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama three years earlier, arm in arm, standing up for equal rights and protections for all Americans, regardless of race or religion. Like those sitting around him, King would have remembered that the fight for freedom is an ongoing one; every generation has its own Pharaoh to enslave the vulnerable...
...Modern day Pharaohs like hunger, poverty, and disease continue to enslave much of the world’s population. Eighteen thousand children die every day from hunger according to the U.N. food agency. Almost half of the world lives on less than $2.50 a day. UNICEF reports that one in every two children lives in poverty, and one out of every seven has no access to healthcare. Malaria is a curable and preventable disease that continues to kill a child in Africa every 30 seconds...