Prisons: tear them down

Pennsylvania DOC reclassifies Latinx incarcerated workers as ‘white’ 

By  Bryant Arroyo and Betsey Piette In late August, environmental justice advocate and Puerto Rican political prisoner Bryant Arroyo was…

September 23, 2022

Violent squadron attacks Pennsylvania prisoners

By Miley Fletcher The State Correctional Institution Forest, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC) and the institution’s administration ordered…

September 21, 2022

Commentary: a killing spree in Oklahoma

The state of Oklahoma is making execution history. It is poised to become a serial killer. On July 1, an…

September 20, 2022

Jeanette Merrill ¡Presente! – ‘You have to be a partisan in the class struggle’

Buffalo, New York The class struggle lost our very partisan comrade Jeanette Fusco Merrill in the 90th year of her…

September 19, 2022

A turning point in American corrections

first posted September 9, 2021 The following lightly edited commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal aired as part of the “50 Years…

September 12, 2022

Mr. Blinken’s blinders

Last month, another chapter of U.S. domination in Africa was written, a chapter of such hubris and arrogance toward independent…

September 9, 2022

No justice in this system – a WW commentary

The criminal justice system? NO! Never say this phrase again because there is no justice in this system! We must…

September 8, 2022

Texas prison abolitionists confront the state

Abolitionists from the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement traveled from Houston to Galveston on Aug. 26 to address the Texas…

September 6, 2022

Albert Woodfox: ‘a warrior who loved humanity’

John “Bunchy '” Crear joined Peoples Party 2 in Houston in June 1971. He went to Oakland, California, with Charles…

August 31, 2022

Momentum builds to stop the new jail plan

Over 100 Greater Cleveland community members turned out Aug. 25 for a “Community meeting” held to purportedly hear from Cuyahoga…

August 30, 2022