AFSC Arizona is proud to announce a critical follow-up report to Buried Alive (2007) and Lifetime Lockdown (2012) on solitary confinement in Arizona prisons, highlighting the voices of maximum-security prisoners and cataloguing their testimonies describing those experiences. This report, Still Buried Alive: Arizona Prisoner Testimonies on Isolation in […]
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Matthew Lowen, American Friends Service Committee, Arizona mlowen@afsc.org, 520.869.6392 (cell) On Monday, December 1, 2014 at 11am, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), will hold a press conference in front of the Arizona State Capitol to announce the release a new report highlighting the […]
For Immediate Release Media Contacts: Caroline Isaacs, American Friends Service Committee | cisaacs@afsc.org | 520.256.4146 Eshe Cole, Grassroots Leadership | ecole@grassrootsleadership.org | 512.971.0487 Kathryn Hamoudah, Southern Center for Human Rights | khamoudah@schr.org | 404.688.1202 —– (Tucson, AZ; Austin, TX; Atlanta, GA) – American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Grassroots Leadership, and the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) will […]
The for-profit private prison industry is breaking new ground, and not just in Dilley, Texas where the largest family immigrant detention center is currently being built. Aside from the tortured history of family detention centers in Texas (see list below), what makes this plan ground-breaking in the worst […]
Today the first step in ameliorating the horrific health care and poor conditions in Arizona prisons was taken when the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) settled with the ACLU of Arizona in a historic legal case, Parsons v. Ryan. This settlement is a win for Arizona prisoners and the […]
Statement of Arizona Border Communities on the Central America Refugee Crisis Recently, the U.S. Senate failed to pass a border security appropriations bill, while the House of Representative adjourned for August without responding in a viable way to the Obama administration’s request for emergency funding to address the […]
AFSC Arizona presents: JUSTICE ON TAP | Saturday May 10 @ 7:30pm (Doors @ 6:30pm) | Only $10 at door! Tomorrow evening, at the Rialto Theatre in downtown Tucson, AFSC Arizona will present, Justice on Tap featuring Chicha Dust, Carlos Arzate & the Kind Souls, and Cyril Barrett […]