Prisons: tear them down

Court rejects appeal of Michigan rights leader

On July 26, the Michigan Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney. Convicted in Berrien…

August 1, 2016

Stop the state murder of Jeff Wood

Austin, Texas Fact: Jeff Wood is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas on Aug. 24. Fact: Jeff…

July 25, 2016

Prisoners harness power of labor strike

As movements for freedom and against mass incarceration continue to build behind prison walls, more prisoners are looking to the…

July 3, 2016

Stop force feeding striking prisoners!

At least six prisoners are now on hunger strike in Wisconsin at Columbia, Green Bay and Waupun maximum security prisons.…

July 3, 2016

Sign the petition to tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch to FREE the MOVE 9

The following appeal was written by Michael Davis Africa, one of the unjustly imprisoned MOVE 9 and a member of…

June 30, 2016

Major Tillery case appealed

The family and other supporters of Major Tillery, who has been in Pennsylvania prisons unjustly for over 30 years, gathered…

June 21, 2016

Protests fight Michigan prison conditions

Prisoners at the Marquette Branch Prison in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula held a mass boycott of the facility’s cafeteria on May…

June 17, 2016

Mumia Abu-Jamal on: Muhammad Ali –‘the greatest!’

It was January 1942, when the baby Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born to a working-class Black family in Louisville,…

June 17, 2016

Free Rev. Edward Pinkney!

Activists from around Michigan converged in Benton Harbor in the southwest portion of the state on May 28 for a…

June 3, 2016

Solitary confinement is ‘no touch’ torture and must be abolished

Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the heroic WikiLeaks whistleblower and transgender activist currently jailed in the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.,…

May 30, 2016