Prisons: tear them down

Disabled Buffalo man in jail seven months without charges

Buffalo, New York Since July 6, 2021, Eric Lynch has been held in the Erie County Holding Center (where 32…

February 23, 2022

‘End the war against the poor!’

The Cuyahoga County Jail Coalition, the Greater Cleveland Housing Justice Coalition and allies held a joint demonstration Feb. 20 to…

February 22, 2022

Philadelphia: protest caravan targets jails

Incarcerated people in Philadelphia’s jails — 90% awaiting trial while not convicted of any crime — are suffering from horrible…

February 16, 2022

‘Attica’ nominated for Oscar

In early September 1971, over 1,000 prisoners, mainly Black and Latinx, rebelled against racism, brutal treatment and horrific conditions at…

February 15, 2022

‘The prisons are the crime!’ – Honor the Angola 3

The following slightly edited WW editorial first appeared on workers.org Feb. 24, 2016, with the headline “Tear down the walls!”…

February 10, 2022

The death penalty in 2022

The new year began with Oklahoma legally lynching a severely mentally ill African American named Donald Grant. Killing someone with…

February 9, 2022

Free Leonard Peltier! COVID-19 inside prison

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic currently raging through the jail, prison and detention centers of this country, Leonard…

January 31, 2022

Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘A new Freedom Now Movement’

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s commentaries are recorded by prisonradio.org/.  The great Caribbean revolutionary Franz Fanon wrote in his now-classic work, “The Wretched…

January 31, 2022

Time for justice / Urgent need for change in Pennsylvania sentencing system

The writer is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania’s SCI Coal Township. The Families Against Mandatory Minimum (FAMM) report points out the…

January 28, 2022

Santa Rita prisoners conduct hunger strike

Oakland In what has been a continuing struggle by Alameda county prisoners for decent food and sanitary conditions at Santa…

January 26, 2022