Prisons: tear them down

WWP Prisoners Solidarity Committee demands
Ban shackling!

Members of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party investigated the use of shackles on prisoners while hospitalized and…

April 8, 2022

Prison ‘health care’ system is broken

By Sam Smith Note: This writer is incarcerated at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. I feel like in…

April 8, 2022

Mumia and his mighty pebbles

Dear Editor: Some years back Prison Radio quoted a progressive judge as saying that we had reached: “the twilight of…

April 6, 2022

Groups back progressive law for Rikers Island prisoners

When an incarcerated worker is doing time in a prison and finally makes parole, it is usually a cause for…

March 29, 2022

Black Trans Lives Matter! The right to self-defense

By Leslie Feinberg  This is part of an article published Dec. 7, 2012, in Workers World, in a series of…

March 25, 2022

Rodney Reed: ​​Justice delayed is justice denied

Houston — On any day of the week, prisons are hell. Texas prisons are no exception. And for prisoners on…

March 23, 2022

Released after 46 years, Bradford Gamble exposes medical abuse

Bradford Gamble is holding a cell phone to his ear with one hand, his other elbow resting on the arm…

March 22, 2022

Letters from our incarcerated family

Dear Workers World, I’m writing to you in hopes to start to receive this paper. I would like to understand…

March 15, 2022

The struggle to free Mumia continues

Philadelphia March 2 — Dozens of supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal — the imprisoned, internationally renowned journalist, community activist and Pennsylvania…

March 4, 2022

Historic International Working Women’s Day march to House of Detention

by Naomi Cohen New York City The following edited excerpt is from an article originally published in the March 25,…

March 4, 2022