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Historic wildfires blaze through LA months after the Democratically-run city cut fire service funds.

News headlines rhetorically ask us to consider what happens when CA inmates - working as firefighters for roughly $6 per day - cannot contain unprecedented fires.

Billionaires drain the already water-starved state of its supply as hydrants dry up when needed most.

What does it mean to grow up during the genocide of your people?

Today is the first of December, 2025. Last Friday, the United Nations committee on torture released a report on the "de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture" in Israeli detention centers, noting the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge" and that imprisoned Palestinian children "have severe restrictions on family contact, may be held in solitary confinement, and do not have access to education, in violation of international standards."

What about the children who have not been kidnapped by Israelis and tortured in prisons? Many of these children are laboring in the streets instead of learning in schools.

Israel has targeted and destroyed the overwhelming majority of schools in Gaza, denying children their education. At least 39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents. Many young people, like my friend Ahmed, are now responsible for bringing in enough money for shelter, food, and water for their families.

Even when cisgender women rape other cisgender women in prison, they are not transferred to men's prisons. One does not have to believe that consensual sex in prisons is acceptable to acknowledge that this transfer is a double standard. And yet this is the treatment transgender women can expect, apparently: a brutal double standard of violence, wherein our presence in any space is that of, at best, a conditional visitor. Yet when push comes to shove, we are more impoverished, more violated, and more mistreated by our patriarchal society.

The state of Washington must reverse it's decision. If it cannot be compelled to do so, then Kim's sentence must be commuted - even if we accept that prisons can perform justice, surely we all agree that justice is never forwarded by torture; that a day served of a sentence in the form of torturing a minority is not, in fact, a day closer to any kind of justice.

ICE has 212 active detention facilities — that’s up 103 from FY 2024. More than 1 in 5 facilities are located in states along the US-Mexico border.

For many Canadians, reading a book is part of daily life — whether its for learning, entertainment or peace of mind. But in Saskatchewan's provincial jails, access to reading materials is far from guaranteed. That's something two librarians are working to change. "People who are incarcerated don't forfeit their rights to access to information or to reading materials," says Alan Kilpatrick, a librarian with the Law Society of Saskatchewan. Kilpatrick and Marika Hunter, a librarian at the RCMP Depot Learning Resource Centre, are part of the Saskatchewan Library Association's Prison Library Subcommittee. They say incarcerated people in the province are often overlooked when it comes to access to books and information. "It's a window to the outside world for incarcerated persons and it allows for them to prepare for reintegration and rehabilitation once they leave the correctional system," Kilpatrick said.

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