Prisons: tear them down

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

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