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Cases Thrown Out of Court Because Police Held “Contest” For Arrests; Which Chief Denied Happened

April 13, 2017 Ademo Freeman 2329 Views Abington, Abington Police Department, Accountability, arrest, arrest quotas, boston, bounty, Chief David Majenski, Civil rights, competition, cop block, copblock, copblock network, copblock.org, Corruption, david majenski, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, friendly competition, Harassment, jail, Joseph Krowski Jr., Justice System, kelly patterson, Kidnapping, ma, mass, Massachusetts, MyFoxBoston, no victim no crime, officers, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Prison, quotas, rights, rumors, Tickets, video

Kelly Patterson broke a story in 2015 about the Massachusetts Police Chief who was offering his police officers a weekend off

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Five New Jersey Corrections Officers Sexually Abused Female Prisoners Over the Course of Two Years

February 2, 2017February 5, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1214 Views Alpha, Clinton, Corrections Officer Ahnwar Dixon, Corrections Officer Brian Ambroise, Corrections Officer Jason Mays, Corrections Officer Thomas Seguine, corrections officers, DOC, East Orange, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, grand jury, Hillside, Hunterdon County, Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office, joint investigation, kelly patterson, New Jersey, New Jersey Department of Corrections, NJ, official misconduct, Phillipsburg, press conference, Prison, Prosecutor Anthony P Kearns III, rape culture, raping inmates, second degree sexual assault, senior corrections officer, sexual abuse, sexual relationship with an inmate, Special Investigations Division, Special Victims Unit, Trentonian.com

Four New Jersey corrections officers have been indicted for sexual assault against nine women at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility

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The High Cost of Vengeance Culture & Its Alternatives

November 17, 2016February 17, 2017 Alia Atreides 1212 Views abolish the police, abolish the state, accountability is futile, Adaptive Anarchism, alternatives, copblock, jail, Joshua H, justice, policing alternatives, post-scarcity, Prison, restoration, restorative justice, Technology

Authoritarians and activists both operate on a fatal premise, which is that vengeance is justice. Vengeance culture permeates every aspect

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New Hampshire Vice Cop Arrested for DUI After Head-On Crash

October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 Ian Freeman 1984 Views 2006, Accountability, Alcohol, British government, cannabis, chief drug adviser, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, crosspost, Dishonesty, double-standards, driving drunk, drug charges, Drug war, dui, dwi, exit 2, felony charges, fines, free keene, hallucinogenic mushrooms, Hypocrisy, I-95, Kyle Tasker, Lancet, mdma, New Hampshire, nh, NH Cop Blockers, Nottingham, Nottingham Police Department, Officer Chris Gilroy, offramp, pickup truck, police, police accountability, police raid, Prison, Professor David Nutt, silver, slap on the wrist, state representative, study, the war on some drugs, Toyota Tacoma, union leader, vice cop, victimless crimes, war on drugs

Nottingham Police Officer Chris Gilroy, who made news when he fraudulently posed as a teenage girl and attempted to lure

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Jackson (MI) CopBlockers Troll State Agents with TWO MAN Open Carry Marches

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016 Ademo Freeman 1117 Views cop block, copblock, copblock.org, county jail, Double Standard, double-standards, film the police, jackson copblock, jackson prison, MI, Michigan, open carry, police, Prison, rights, state

It takes two to tango they say. And two men open carrying firearms, a perfectly legal act in Michigan, to send

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What is Expected to be the Biggest Prison Strike in History Began Sept. 9th, Here’s Why You Should Join Them

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1468 Views 13th Amendment, abolish prisons, American Prisons, assault, Attica, Attica Prison Riots, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, federal bureau of prisons, federal prison, Free Alabama Movement, freedom, Harassment, incarcerated Worker organizing Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, Justice System, kelly patterson, life in prison, no victim no crime, non-violent drug offense, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, Prison, prison abolition, prison for-profit, prison industrial complex, prison is the new slavery, prison labor, prison overcrowding, prison plantation, prison riots, prison slavery, prison strike, prison system, prisoner abuse, prisoner solidarity, prisoners, private prisons, rights, school to prison pipeline, slave labor, strike the root, The New Jim Crow, The War on Drugs, the war on some drugs, Thirteenth Amendment, Update, victimless crimes, victimless drug crimes, video

Note: Previously, CopBlock Network Contributor Josh Hotchkins also published a post previewing and discussing the prison strike. The growth of

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Largest Prison Strike in US History to Begin on September 9th

August 30, 2016 Alia Atreides 1198 Views A Call to Action Against Slavery, Attica Prison Riots, Civil disobedience, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, hunger strike, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Joshua H, national lawyers guild, Prison, prison labor, prison strike, protests, slave labor, Slavery, war on drugs, work stoppage

What organizers are saying will be the grandest act of civil disobedience of prison inmates in US history will involve work

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A Manifesto: The True Menace To American Security (It’s Not Cops)

June 17, 2016June 17, 2016 Georgia Sand 1390 Views america, Bigots, biology, Birkenstocks, Boxers, briefs, brother, Bulletproof, Civil rights, Collective, collectivism, culture, danger, dangerous, dirty hippies, Donald Trump, Drinking, drunks, Due Process, enslavement, father, fear-mongering, freedom, Fuhrer, Gays, Genes, genocide, Hillary Clinton, hippies, Homicide, Husband, Islam, justice, men, monitoring, murder, Muslims, Nag Champa, National Safety, obama, Penis, Peril, police, Police State, prejudice, Prison, Promiscuity, Racism, Radical, rape, Safety, Sandalwood, science, security, Sluts, Surveillance, terrorists, threat, Trump, unbearable nuisance, United States, values, Video Games, violence

I have been writing for Cop Block since 2010, and as such, have been keenly aware of police abuse issues

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Proposed British Prison Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough to Address the Real Issues

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1379 Views 1984, Accountability, assault, autonomy, behind bars, Britian, British citizenry, British parliament, Brutality, C4SS, center for a stateless society, center of conflict, central purpose of prisons, Civil rights, clear bright line between right and wrong, confining realms of prisons, containment element of prisons, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, cost-effective and moral way of resolving conflicts, criminal element, criminals, deaths in prison, Dishonesty, emphasis on rehabilitation, enforcing the rules of the state, forms of situating justice, freedom, good intentions, gray lines, Harassment, idea of a better world, instilling morality, jail population, jobs, Justice System, kelly patterson, Lord Chancellor, love for others, Michael Gove, misery prisoners go through, moralism, morality, more effective criminal, Nick Ford, no victim no crime, non-violent offenders, on their way out of prison, out-group bias, overcrowding in prisons, police, Police State, Prison, prison reforms, prisoners, Queen Elizabeth, real hope, reconvicted, reform sentencing, restorative and transformative justice, rights, satellite tags, Secretary of State for Justice, serious offenders, strike the root, Suicide, Surveillance, surveillance state, the Prison Reform Trust, the Telegraph, transforming prisons, transition into society, UK, Update, victimless crimes

This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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Update: Shooting Nevada Inmates With Birdshot Banned by New NDOC Director (For Now)

June 3, 2016June 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 3758 Views Accountability, Andrew Arevalo, assault, Brutality, Cal Potter, Carlos Perez, Civil rights, Commissioner, Connecticut, cop block, copblock.org, Correctional Officer Isaiah Smith, Correctional Officer Jeff Castro, correctional officers, Corrections Department Director Greg Cox, corrections officer, Corruption, COT Ramos, cover up, Dana Liebelson, Department of Corrections, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, freedom, Governor Brian Sandoval, High Desert State Prison, Homicide, huffington post, Indian Springs, inmate, inmate abuse, Inmate Death, inmates, interview, James Dzurenda, Justice System, kelly patterson, KNPR, las vegas, lawsuit, murder, NDOC, negative media attention, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada State Government, Nevada's "unique" prison culture, New York, NV, nvcopblock, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Prison, Prison Correctional Officer, prison death, prison guards, radio, rehabilitation, reintegration, rights, Senior Correctional Officer Mumpower, shotguns, State of the Nevada podcast, Trainee Raynaldo J. Ramos, unauthorized use of force, Update, use of force, use of guns in prison, Victor Perez, video

As I’ve reported here on CopBlock.org in several posts over the past year, the use of shotguns loaded with birdshot

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“If You Obey The Law, You’ve Got Nothing To Fear” Except the Justice System

May 10, 2016March 3, 2017 Ryan Scott 1156 Views Accountability, allegations, assault, bench trial, Brutality, Civil rights, constitutional rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, court room, credit fraud, credit theft, Daily Chronicle, Dekalb, DeKalb County Cop Block, dekalb county court house, dekalb police, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, excessive force, false allegations, Featured, felony, Felony warrant, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Harassment, Illinois, issued, judge, Justice System, Kane County Chronicle, nancy celitans, Photography, Police brutality, police corruption, Police State, Prison, probable cause, public defender, rights, Ryan Scott, Sycamore, Transparency, unlawful arrest, video

As much as I would like to throw this into the faces of my haters, I will let the facts

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Officer Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Crack, Pills, And More Into Jail

May 2, 2016 Steven Thomas 1334 Views Accountability, arrested, cocaine, contraband, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, Drug war, Facility, iphone, jail, Jail.Guilty, Justice System, Lighters, Manhattan, oxycodone, Patricia Howard, Pills, Pliers, police, police accountability, Police State, Prison, rights, Smuggle, Smuggled, The Tombs, Tombs, Update

A veteran correction officer pled guilty and was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for smuggling drugs and other

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