The UK is fighting to conceal data on how many unemployed people have been killed or driven to suicide by the government's cruel cuts.

The Tories are worse than vermin: they are murderers, covering up their crimes.

Justice Kennedy begs for a case to raise the issue of whether long term solitary confinement is cruel and inhumane punishment.

The US Congress is considering a bill to collect school records and subsequent income records for everyone that goes to a US college.

The UN inquiry into Israel's attack on Gaza says that the violence against Gaza civilians seems to have been a policy ordered by the high command.

Prisoners in the US are fighting the prison-industrial complex by refusing to work unpaid.

In principal, it is not wrong to make prisoners cook the food that they eat, or wash the clothes that they wear. That's no worse than life for most people. Putting prisoners to work on public service activities can be a form of restitution and rehabilitation (if it isn't twisted into an excuse for cruelty).

However, making prisoners work unpaid for the state's profit, or private profit, is harmful to everyone. It cuts wages for people outside prison, which is likely to force some of them into prison.

Combine this with the system that gouges prisoners for everything, even medical care (which they are entitled to), and it makes sense for prisoners to refuse to work at all without a decent wage.

US prisons abandoned the idea of rehabilitation in the 1980s as part of massive incarceration, but what could be more effective rehabilitation for prisoners than giving them a real job for real pay?