Prisons: tear them down

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

Lisa Montgomery’s execution: ‘We cannot let this happen again’

This lightly edited statement was issued by Attorney Kelley Henry on the execution of Lisa Montgomery on Jan. 13 at…

January 18, 2021

Huelgas de hambre en tres cárceles de Nueva Jersey

Las sucias condiciones, el encarcelamiento indefinido y la escalada de infecciones por COVID han desencadenado huelgas de hambre desesperadas en…

January 15, 2021

Lessons from Charlottesville: How to fight fascism in 2021

The large demonstration of fascist, white-supremacist forces in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 brought back memories for this writer of…

January 13, 2021

Prison officials’ crimes mount at Ramsey Unit in Texas

Houston “I just can’t take it anymore,” Michael Beck told other prisoners at the W. F. Ramsey Unit state prison,…

January 13, 2021