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America's alternative slavery
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Hays, Jack
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2019-12
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4 pages
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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,...
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apw:12360049
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2020-12-02T18:36:32.993Z
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Censure and deceit: Another Iowa scandal swept under the bureaucratic rug
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Hays, Jack
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3 pages
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"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...
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apw:12360991
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2021-02-03T15:50:12.954Z
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Corruption, fraud, dishonesty, and exploitation in Iowa prisons -- with impunity
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Author
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Hays, Jack
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Date
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2019
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4 pages
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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 ...
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apw:12360044
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2020-12-02T18:36:22.99Z
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Shades of innocence: America's wrongful conviction trade
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Author
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Hays, Jack
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Date
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2019-12
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3 pages
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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
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The coronavirus and Black Lives Matter in Iowa prisons
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Author
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Hays, Jack
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4 pages
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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...
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apw:12360370
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2020-12-02T18:46:48.001Z
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Why solitary confinement is torture
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Author
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Hays, Jack
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Date
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2020-01
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2 pages
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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"....
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apw:12360731
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2021-02-03T15:42:43.208Z