Prisons: tear them down

‘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

COVID-19 and the prison abolition movement

The current spike in COVID-19 infections among the incarcerated in prisons, jails and detention centers is not only alarming and…

January 25, 2022

Danbury federal prison overrun by COVID-19 infections

With COVID-19 infections spiking in the outside general population, it is no wonder that it is running rampant in the…

January 18, 2022

Rikers prisoners strike against unsafe, unsanitary and inhumane conditions

In a desperate move in the midst of a raging COVID-19 infection, 200 prisoners at Rikers Island, New York City’s…

January 17, 2022

Solitary confinement on death row — a death before dying

“It is inhumane, and by its design it is driving men insane. Solitary confinement makes the criminal justice system the…

January 14, 2022