Prisons: tear them down

How prisons contribute to opioid crisis

Prisons, which serve the purposes of the capitalist bourgeoisie, are filled to the brim with people who suffer from addiction…

December 2, 2020

COVID-19 in Oregon: Prison laundry workers at greatest risk

Portland, Ore. In November, three Oregon prisons — Two Rivers, Salem, and Snake River — reported the state’s highest rate…

November 30, 2020

Joann Little and the right to self-defense

The following remarks were given at the Sept. 24 webinar “Women and Gender Oppressed Prisoners: Survival and Resistance,” hosted by…

November 27, 2020

Protest demands health care is a right – Treat Tyejaun or free him!

Martinez, Calif.  Family members, friends, social workers, teachers and prisoners’ rights advocates converged on the Martinez Detention Facility in Martinez,…

November 25, 2020

Montana issues COVID death sentence to prisoners

Montana State Prison reported Nov. 6 that Robert Gonzalez, 70, died Oct. 24 of COVID and that “underlying health conditions…

November 23, 2020

Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus

Philadelphia When the coronavirus first became a global pandemic in the spring of 2020, there were widespread demands, met with…

November 20, 2020

Yet another death in Cleveland jail

Cleveland On Nov. 9 Shone Trawick became the third person to die in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County Jail this year and…

November 20, 2020

‘Accelerate our efforts’ to free Mumia

By Angela Davis Professor Angela Davis, herself once a political prisoner, is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national…

November 19, 2020

Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus

When the coronavirus first became a global pandemic in the spring of 2020, there were widespread demands, met with promises…

November 19, 2020

COVID-19 protocols: Recipe for disaster in Pennsylvania prisons

Incarcerated workers across Pennsylvania are demanding that Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reverse his disastrous decision to begin mass…

November 18, 2020