Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸
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Senior Reporter @theappeal covering prisons/jails. Bylines: Scalawag, NY Focus, The Nation, Truthout. Free 🇵🇸. Anti-Zionist Jew.
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My friend watched an NYPD officer by Columbia University deny a student access to her own dorm which she needed to get into to get her epilepsy meds. She then collapsed and the officer failed to call an ambulance. They have his badge number Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams Jumaane Williams, can you help?
An investigation from The Appeal reveals private industry is exploiting incarcerated people with shocking price gouging at prison commissaries.
Denture Cups: Marked up over 600%.
Reading Glasses: Marked up over 500%
Peanut Butter: Marked up over 70%.
theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…
The carceral system dehumanizes and exploits people. The Appeal documents how capitalism thrives in prisons and takes advantage of people with no options.
Pretrial detainees at NY’s Broome County Jail are forced to work without pay and threatened with solitary if they refuse, according to a new lawsuit. One man protested after ~500 hours of unpaid work and got a week of 'keep lock.' Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 reports. theappeal.org/broome-county-…