Here’s what you should know if you do business with Wells Fargo & Co.

• An Investigative Report by AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) provides an overview of Wells Fargo’s illicit activities and how government agencies and other public institutions have responded over the past three years.
• Wells Fargo Chief Abruptly Steps Down – (New York Times: 10/12/2016) – lists other unethical practices by Wells Fargo.
• Wells Fargo admits it incorrectly foreclosed on 545 home-owners it should have helped (Wash. Post, 11/6/2018)   (more…)

  Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) policies instituted in September in response to the drug crisis in prisons have violated prisoners’ rights, restricted access to educational materials, and delayed people’s correspondence with loved ones on the outside.
  On October 19, partly in response to public feedback, the DOC announced changes to some of the offensive policies listed in this on-line petition to Governor Wolf and described in news reports (below). A summary of recent DOC policy changes is posted here, and there is additional information linked to the DOC homepage: www.cor.pa.gov. (more…)

POWER Northeast – End Mass Incarceration Lehigh Valley working group
meets 2nd and 4th Thursdays each month, 6-8pm at 916 W. Turner St., Allentown. For more details and other events related to Mass Incarceration, see justice.ppjr.org .