Mirinda Crissman

Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people

This article was originally published in Workers World on May 28, 2021 At every stage in the criminal injustice system,…

May 26, 2023

Dr. Mutulu Shakur: A steadfast revolutionary

This article was originally published in Workers World Aug. 4, 2021. Dr. Mutulu Shakur was granted parole Nov. 10, but…

November 25, 2022

Extreme weather and mass incarceration deaths

Houston Across the hottest places in the U.S., people in prisons, jails and detention centers often face unbearable and sometimes…

July 20, 2022

Juneteenth: emancipation, resistance and reparations

Houston This article, which appeared in the June 23, 2021, issue of Workers World, is being reprinted here to celebrate…

June 20, 2022

Inhumane system separates families

From behind bars at U.S. Penitentiary-McCreary in rural Kentucky, Eli Torres received the news from his family back home in…

June 7, 2022

No new jails! Tear Down the Walls commentary

The prisons, jails and detention centers in New York City have long been evolving in service of capitalism. From their…

May 25, 2022

Cómo opresión de clases impulsa crisis climáticas: un comentario de WW 

Publicado originalmente en Workers World/Mundo Obrero, el 30 de septiembre del 2020, este artículo es aún más oportuno después del…

May 20, 2022

How class oppression drives climate crises–a WW commentary

Originally published in Workers World, Sept. 30, 2020, this article is even more timely after Earth Day 2022. The U.S.…

April 27, 2022

Comentario: Necesitamos la abolición de las prisiones, no la reforma

Casi 2,3 millones de personas encarceladas cada día en prisiones, cárceles y centros de detención de Estados Unidos, se enfrentan…

January 12, 2022

We need prison abolition, not reform

Nearly 2.3 million people, who are incarcerated every day in prisons, jails and detention centers in the United States, face…

January 6, 2022