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Title
America's alternative slavery
Author
Hays, Jack
Date
2019-12
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
America's Alternative Slavery By Jack Hays (2019) "We've gone from plantations to penitentiaries..." --Reverend Al Sharpton 1 I am the "white" son of a "black"2 Labor Leader. That is what he called me... his "white son."3 We spent many a day arguing over various issues before he died. This is what he enjoyed doing. One such issue I found myself listening intently to was about his expertise: Labor and civil rights. One day he volunteered to me,...
PID
apw:12360049
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2020-12-02T18:36:32.993Z
Title
Censure and deceit: Another Iowa scandal swept under the bureaucratic rug
Author
Hays, Jack
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Censure and Deceit: Another Iowa Scandal Swept Under the Bureaucratic Rug" By Jack Hays As early as 2006, a female employee of the Clinical Care Unit - a unit for the seriously mentally ill at the Iowa State Pen. (ISP) in Fort Madison, Iowa (now closed1) - complained of sexual harassment from both staff and prisoners. However, her direct supervisor simply stated that if he was a prisoner he would try to "get with" her as well. This poor woman was eventually fired. She fil...
PID
apw:12360991
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:50:12.954Z
Title
Corruption, fraud, dishonesty, and exploitation in Iowa prisons -- with impunity
Author
Hays, Jack
Date
2019
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corruption, Fraud, Dishonesty, and Exploitation in Iowa Prisons -- With Impunity By Jack Hays Clarinda Correctional Facility, Clarinda, Iowa (2019) In Spring of 2016, I was the elected Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at the Anamosa Prison Branch, Anamosa, Iowa. I had submitted letters and complaints to both state and federal officials about the following: 1. The Anamosa Prison Administration was using prisoner fundraiser money to supplement ...
PID
apw:12360044
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:36:22.99Z
Title
Shades of innocence: America's wrongful conviction trade
Author
Hays, Jack
Date
2019-12
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Shades of Innocence: America's Wrongful Conviction Trade By Jack Hays On October 26th, 2015, former Iowa Governor, Terry Branstad, lamented, "We know that in a system run by humans, mistakes can be made."1 This was the statement Branstad made concerning a new Iowa Division of the Midwest Innocence Project—the "Wrongful Conviction Unit". The article in the Des Moines Register reporting the new addition to the project stated that "independent studies conservatively...
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apw:12360727
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2021-02-03T15:42:38.623Z
Title
The coronavirus and Black Lives Matter in Iowa prisons
Author
Hays, Jack
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
THE CORONA VIRUS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER IN IOWA PRISONS By Jack Hays The marginalized and imprisoned here in Iowa have no voice -- whether you are Black, mentally ill, poor, other minority, or all the above. The silence is deafening. In the age of Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter, there is no "black lives matter movement" in the Iowa Prisons. [1] I recently read in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, "Gazette" that prisoners have generally agreed with the Corona Virus response by th...
PID
apw:12360370
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:46:48.001Z
Title
Why solitary confinement is torture
Author
Hays, Jack
Date
2020-01
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Why Solitary Confinement Is Torture By Jack Hays Black's law dictionary defines "torture" as, "To inflict intense pain to body or mind for purposes of punishment..."1The United Nations has classified solitary confinement by its very nature as torture.2 I endured solitary confinement as a child.3 I have endured it off-and-on my entire life as a means of control, as an instrument of retaliation for standing up for what is right, and for senseless "punishment"....
PID
apw:12360731
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:42:43.208Z