Prisons: tear them down

COVID lockdown fuels prison suicide

By Miley Selena Fletcher The following letter is from a transgender incarcerated worker at SCI Forest in Pennsylvania. On Jan.…

February 5, 2021

Brutal Alabama prison attack on incarcerated workers

Occupied Muscogee Creek Land  Events in this report happened on the next to last day of a month-long strike and…

February 3, 2021

Bay Area movement: ‘Mass releases, not mass deaths!’

Oakland, Calif. Jan. 31 — Today as a plane pulled a banner, “Newsom: Free prisoners 2 stop Covid deaths,” through…

February 3, 2021

Prisionero de Pensilvania en crisis de COVID – Los guardias eran los transmisores

Por Miley Selena Fletcher SCI Forest, Marienville, Pensilvania. Durante ocho meses, el Bosque de la Institución Correccional Estatal (SCI), donde…

February 2, 2021

Demonstrators support ICE hunger strikers in Batavia, N.Y.

In November 2020, immigrants imprisoned at Bergen County Jail in New Jersey began a hunger strike to protest the filthy…

January 29, 2021

2021 is the Year of the Political Prisoner

The U.S. “justice” system, like every institution of a capitalist state, is a weapon designed and wielded by the billionaires…

January 21, 2021

The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort

On Jan. 15 at the death row prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with less than a week to go of…

January 20, 2021

Diet discrimination in prisons, jails, and detention centers

The interlocking systems of prisons, jails and detention centers were built up by descendants of those made rich from colonial…

January 20, 2021

For exposing COVID-19 outbreak, Black newspaper editor faces retaliation

What happens when a federal prisoner who has just become the Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco Bay View National Black…

January 19, 2021

Legal lynchings soar under Trump

In an unprecedented spree of executions, Donald Trump has executed 13 people in the last six months of his presidency.…

January 18, 2021