Inmates are being denied the opportunity to properly grieve and lay their loved ones to rest due to the DOC’s rules and restrictions, causing mental health issues.
Twin Cities Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
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Are MN prisons receptive to inmate complaints?
Activists and advocates question the Department of Corrections’ internal grievance process, which they say is ineffective and punishes those incarcerated for speaking up.
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Why doesn’t Rush City prison have a dentist?Â
Prisoners at MCF Rush City are not provided with adequate dental care, despite the constitutional right to medical care for serious medical needs.
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Do Minnesotans condone the enslavement of human beings?Â
Minnesota’s Constitution declares slavery and involuntary servitude legal as a punishment for a crime, and the state’s prisons are a violent, dehumanizing, and coercive slave labor.
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Families demand reduced timeline to implement new prison “good time” lawÂ
The Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act (MRRA) allows people to earn early release and supervision reductions by using their time well, increasing public safety and saving taxpayers money. Planned for the last three years and passed in May, the law went into effect this August 1. Yet there is ongoing controversy over its implementation, with […]
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State prison unrest exposes overcrowding, understaffing
“Prison overcrowding is a vast issue in Minnesota,” according to Kellerlawoffices.com. “With many policymakers insistent on the need for stricter sentencing and no tolerance for multiple-offense inmates, state prisons are bursting at the seams [and] any space the releases make available is almost immediately occupied by new inmates.”