Prisons: tear them down

Poisoned water plagues Pennsylvania prisonsPoisoned water plagues Pennsylvania prisons

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

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’Rev. Pinkney transferred out of ‘hell hole’

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 guardsNo ‘solidarity’ with prison guards

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!’Clock ticking to ‘Free Leonard Peltier!’

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

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
Reflections on white supremacy by an anti-imperialist political prisonerReflections on white supremacy by an anti-imperialist political prisoner

Reflections on white supremacy by an anti-imperialist political prisoner

Sept. 28 -- This wide-ranging essay, written by anti-imperialist, U.S. political prisoner Jaan K. Laaman, one of the original Ohio-7/United…

September 30, 2016
Chelsea Manning’s hunger strike wins medical careChelsea Manning’s hunger strike wins medical care

Chelsea Manning’s hunger strike wins medical care

Chelsea Manning, sentenced to 35 years in prison for exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched a hunger…

September 27, 2016
Prisoners hold first nationally coordinated work stoppagePrisoners hold first nationally coordinated work stoppage

Prisoners hold first nationally coordinated work stoppage

Prison inmates around the country launched the first nationally coordinated work stoppage on Sept. 9. In their own words, these…

September 26, 2016
Whistleblower Manning punished for suicide attemptWhistleblower Manning punished for suicide attempt

Whistleblower Manning punished for suicide attempt

In an arbitrary and inhumane decision, a U.S. Army disciplinary board sentenced heroic whistleblower Chelsea Manning to solitary confinement as…

September 25, 2016