Bryant Arroyo

Anatomy of America’s wasteful prison-industrial complex

Bryant Arroyo is a jailhouse lawyer, environmental activist and outspoken advocate for aging and elderly prisoners. He was a rank-and-file…

August 14, 2024

Health care is a right – for those behind bars too!

“This is how they treat us!” exclaimed Bryant Arroyo, incarcerated at State Correctional Institute Coal Township in Pennsylvania, He was…

May 25, 2023

Voices from behind the walls

Workers World received the poem and letters below from prisoners. ‘America, America’ An Anatomy of America’s Wasteful Prison Industrial Complex…

May 19, 2023

Health care in prisons is a crime

If you have the misfortune of being convicted of a crime, innocent or not, what’s it like behind bars if…

December 15, 2022

Time for justice / Urgent need for change in Pennsylvania sentencing system

The writer is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania’s SCI Coal Township. The Families Against Mandatory Minimum (FAMM) report points out the…

January 28, 2022

Resistance continues vs. solitary and banning

Incarcerated people depend on their voices being heard outside the walls for their grievances against prison officials to be effective…

August 13, 2021

Despite solitary and banning, resistance continues

Incarcerated people depend on their voices being heard outside the walls for their grievances against prison officials to be effective…

July 20, 2021

PA prisons:  Disdain, distrust and deprivation

Incarcerated workers across Pennsylvania are demanding that Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reverse his disastrous decision to begin mass…

December 10, 2020

Titular Protocolos COVID-19: Receta para desastre en las prisiones de Pensilvania

Los trabajadores encarcelados en Pensilvania exigen que el secretario del Departamento de Correcciones, John Wetzel, revoque su desastrosa decisión de…

December 10, 2020

COVID-19 protocols: Recipe for disaster in Pennsylvania prisons

Incarcerated workers across Pennsylvania are demanding that Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reverse his disastrous decision to begin mass…

November 18, 2020