Prisons: tear them down

Atlantans vow to ‘Stop Cop City’

June 4 — In the days leading up to the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where a final…

June 6, 2023

Haiti, hunger and U.S. prison imperialism

By James Patrick Jordan Note: This article, first published by Black Agenda Report, has been edited for the May 25,…

June 2, 2023

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

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

Texas rally demands ‘Free condemned prisoner Rodney Reed now!’

Austin, Texas Rodrick Reed, told a crowd demonstrating for his brother Rodney Reed’s freedom May 19: “Twenty-five years is a…

May 22, 2023

Spanish state accuses web magazine of ‘glorification of terrorism’

The following is a May 20 statement by the Editorial Collective of La Haine, a web news magazine that publishes…

May 22, 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

The reaction from those who erect the walls

Missouri prison authorities censor Workers World We thought readers of Workers World would like to see an example of the…

May 17, 2023

Martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan after 86 days of hunger strike: latest target of Israeli assassinations

Published by Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, May 1, 2023. Sheikh Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner, hunger striker and resistance…

May 12, 2023

United Nations panel investigates U.S. political prisoners

By Efia Nwangaza This article, published in Black Agenda Report via Popular Resistance, reports on a United Nations panel of…

May 11, 2023