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I began this blog in May 2009 following the death of Marcia Powell at Perryville State Prison in Goodyear, Arizona. It is not intended to prescribe the path that leads to freedom from the prison industrial complex.

Rather, these are just my observations in arguably the most racist, fascist, militaristic state in the nation at a critical time in history for a number of intersecting liberation movements. From Indigenous resistance to genocidal practices, to the fight over laws like SB1070 and the ban on Ethnic Studies, Arizona is at the center of many battles for human rights, and thus the struggle for prison abolition as well - for none are free until all are. I retired the blog in APRIL 2013.

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

MCSO Criminal Activity

Joe Arpaio's Deputies Admit Destroying Evidence in Racial Profiling Lawsuit

By Stephen Lemons in Feathered Bastard
Sat., Nov. 21 2009 @ 9:50PM
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Nixon redux: Document shredding, deleted e-mails. What's next, secret tapes?

In a stunning revelation recently made public as part of the ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an MCSO sergeant has admitted that the department has been destroying documents and e-mails directly related to the MCSO's anti-immigrant sweeps. This, despite numerous requests by the plaintiffs' lawyers for those documents and e-mails since the beginning of the Melendres v. Arpaio suit in December 2007...(finish it at The Phoenix New Times).

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I ask again: why hasn't there been a mass walk-out of MCSO deputies who refuse to take orders from that man anymore? Is there not a code of ethics among cops higher than the one that has everyone kissing his ass?  - Peg
Posted by Prison Abolitionist at 11:05 AM
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