Prisons: tear them down

Incarcerated workers say: ‘Solidarity with Amazon workers!’

The following letters from incarcerated workers in the Pennsylvania prison system were sent by email on Feb. 13 and 15…

February 16, 2021

Biden and Harris won’t help prisoners

The following are lightly edited remarks from a Workers World Party webinar on January 21. It’s actually been a very…

February 12, 2021

‘Progressive’ prosecutors put thousands of lives at risk

Philadelphia The novel coronavirus has claimed an unlikely victim in the United States: the Sixth Amendment. The right to a…

February 12, 2021

Biden’s ‘prison reform’: Smoke and mirrors

In an executive order signed Jan. 26 as part of his “racial equity” plan, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S.…

February 10, 2021

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