The MountainView Project

12/07/2025

03/01/2019

The Mountainview Project Student Organization is no longer operating. Thank you to everyone who has participated over the years! Anyone interested in incarceration issues and activism at Rutgers should check out Rutgers Petey Greene

Edit: this is just the student club that is no longer active. We apologize for any confusion.

04/27/2018

Due to logistical issues, the final event for Prison Awareness Week, Voices From the Inside: A Discussion on DBI (Death by Incarceration), has been canceled. Thank you everyone that came out to our other events this week, we would also like to thank Rutgers Petey Greene for partnering with us in collaboration to bring the Rutgers community so many great events. We had 10+ panelists that we heard from this week in our first three days of events that shared experiences and perspectives that inspired all those in attendance. Its clear that our goal to spread awareness of education over incarceration was reached. Thank you everyone!

04/23/2018

Tomorrow night is action-packed!!

04/23/2018

Tonight! + Free food!

04/04/2018

"The state’s contract with Management & Training Corporation is particularly economical. Mississippi pays the company just $26 a day — or about $9,500 a year — for each minimum-security inmate. That is far less than the $15,000 a year neighboring Alabama spends per inmate, and only 13 percent of what New York, which spends more than any other state, pays per inmate."

"Mr. Shaw, the warden — who works for Management & Training, not for the state — receives incentives for staying within budget, but is not penalized when inmates die under questionable circumstances or when fires damage the prison. Four prisoners have died this year."

"Pelicia E. Hall, the commissioner of the state prison system, testified that she may have been unaware of many problems at the facility because she did not read weekly performance reports from the state’s own monitor."

"An inmate testified in tears that a female guard had mocked him when he tried to report being r***d in a cell in January. The guard never informed her superiors about the r**e."

A trial in Mississippi provides a rare glimpse into a world where mistreatment of inmates is commonplace, at a time when the Trump administration wants to expand the use of private prisons.

03/29/2018

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