Prisons: tear them down

A new chance to challenge murder conviction: court rejects ‘evidence-free’ effort to block Mumia appeal

By Dave Lindorff The following slightly edited article first appeared in ThisCantBEHappening.net on Dec. 22. Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prison journalist…

December 27, 2020

Demonstrators besiege California prison HQ: ‘Mass releases now!’

Sacramento, Calif. Dec. 17 — Under the banner “From Balloons to Bullhorns,” an angry group of protesters converged on the…

December 24, 2020

Death Row, Texas: A lonely birthday for innocent Rodney Reed 

Bastrop, Texas Rodney Reed’s family and supporters had a press conference and rallied outside the Bastrop County Courthouse, with its…

December 24, 2020

Black Panther in struggle: The continued imprisonment of Russell Maroon Shoatz

Since 1972 -- nearly half a century ago -- Russell Maroon Shoatz has languished in a prison cell built on…

December 23, 2020

COVID and prisons: No walls, no borders in the workers’ struggle

Texas “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers [in an unnamed Texas prison], in the middle…

December 22, 2020

Release Mumia now!

Philadelphia The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police have done everything possible to silence Mumia Abu-Jamal and bury his fight for…

December 18, 2020

Ramsey Prison Unit: The terror of Texas

By Nanon M. Williams Nanon Williams was arrested in 1992 at age 17 for capital murder and spent years on…

December 18, 2020

Swift Justice: ‘A fight from the inside out’

These slightly edited comments are from a Dec. 10 webinar organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party.…

December 18, 2020

Barrier to Mumia’s appeal dismissed: Case can move forward

Philadelphia A significant roadblock to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal of his unjust 1982 murder conviction was removed on Dec. 16, when…

December 17, 2020

Incarcerated rise up against COVID deaths, raging infections

On Dec. 9 an incarcerated person at Stafford Creek “men’s” prison, near Aberdeen, Wash., died of COVID-19. The same week,…

December 17, 2020