Prisons: tear them down

Building an Inside-led prison abolition movement:

On Jan. 5, Devin Cole spoke with Free Alabama Movement co-founder and freedom fighter Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun about the…

January 12, 2021

Free Maroon! Jan. 18 day of actions

Prison abolitionists in several Northeast cities are organizing “Justice Is Dead” car caravans on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to…

January 11, 2021

Eleven Alabama prisoners begin hunger strike! 

Occupied Muscogee Creek land — Montgomery, Ala. With the announcement of the Alabama prison strike/30 Day Economic Blackout, 11 incarcerated…

January 8, 2021

The Pentagon, corporations and slave labor in U.S. prisons

This article was originally published in Workers World June 11, 2011. It is not only federal prisons that contract out…

January 8, 2021

Pa. prisoner on COVID crisis – Guards were the transmitters

Since Workers World received this letter, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has confirmed nearly 7,000 cases of COVID-19 among prisoners…

January 8, 2021

Hunger strikes at three New Jersey prisons

The filthy conditions, indefinite incarceration and escalating COVID infections have touched off desperate hunger strikes at three New Jersey county…

January 7, 2021

Racist police killings: Year ends on a note of outrage

Cleveland — Three days before Christmas, Andre Hill visited the home of a family friend on Dec. 22 to drop…

January 6, 2021

EMERGENCY TWITTER/PHONE CALL ALERT! Alabama prison hunger striker beaten

On the morning of Jan. 4, a prisoner participating in the #Alabama11 hunger strike was beaten and bloodied by a…

January 5, 2021

Advocates demand action as largest women’s prison experiences COVID-19 outbreak

The following press release was issued Jan. 5 by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners   CHOWCHILLA, Calif.   There is…

January 5, 2021

Alabama prisons: ON STRIKE!

Occupied Muscogee Creek / Cherokee / Yuchi / Choctaw / Shawnee / Chickasaw land As of Jan. 1, 2021, incarcerated…

January 5, 2021