Prisons: tear them down

Dec. 9 in Philly: Stop hep C, fight for Mumia!

Philadelphia - A street rally and indoor panel discussions here on Dec. 9 will focus attention on a major health…

December 7, 2016

Political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney transferred

Michigan political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney has once again been transferred to another facility. Only two and a half months…

December 4, 2016

Birthday greetings to political prisoner in Michigan

The Rev. Edward Pinkney, Michigan political prisoner, turned 68 years old inside prison on Oct. 27. The African-American community leader…

November 1, 2016

Pennsylvania rally demands end to ‘death by incarceration’

Harrisburg, Pa. - More than three busloads of family, friends and human rights activists from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other cities…

October 30, 2016

Poisoned water plagues Pennsylvania prisons

“You’d have to be crazy to bathe in that water,” a SCI Mahanoy prison guard told Mumia Abu-Jamal after seeing…

October 17, 2016

Mumia Abu-Jamal will die without mass pressure for hep C cure, protest on Dec. 9

Philadelphia - Unless a mass movement can force Pennsylvania officials to provide antiviral hepatitis C medications to cure Mumia Abu-Jamal’s…

October 17, 2016

Rev. Pinkney transferred out of ‘hell hole’

The Rev. Edward Pinkney, political prisoner, was transferred on Sept. 7 from the Marquette Branch Prison in the far north…

October 8, 2016

No ‘solidarity’ with prison guards

A wave of inmate labor strikes has swept through federal and state prisons across the U.S., preventing business as usual…

October 3, 2016

Clock ticking to ‘Free Leonard Peltier!’

Olympia, Wash. Marching behind a “Free Leonard Peltier” banner, demonstrators demanded presidential clemency for the Native American political prisoner at…

October 2, 2016

Protests outside Mahanoy and Frackville prisons call for clean water, hep c drugs

A car caravan transported prisoners’ family members, friends and prisoners’ rights activists to SCI Mahanoy and SCI Frackville prisons on…

October 1, 2016