Prisons: tear them down

France: George Ibrahim Abdallah must not die in prison!

Workers World received this petition from the Pole for the Rebirth of Communism in France (PRCF) calling for the release…

April 15, 2020

Prisoners rebel during pandemic

Prioritizing prisons, police and punitive responses to social issues is a public health crisis. These approaches are only aggravated by…

April 14, 2020

WW editorial: Why we say ‘Free them all!’

There were 27 progressive demands made by a united front of Black, Latinx and anti-racist white incarcerated men who carried…

April 14, 2020

Locked up and locked down–a commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal

The following slightly edited April 10 commentary by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is available at prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia. For nearly a month…

April 13, 2020

Caravan targets City Hall and jail in Philly protest

Traffic around Philadelphia City Hall came to a standstill for over an hour April 9 as hundreds of protesters, from…

April 13, 2020

Pa. prisoner tells WW: “We’re on death row lockdown”

Workers World reporter Ted Kelly interviewed Bryant Arroyo, a lifer at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute Frackville in central Pennsylvania on…

April 9, 2020

Migrants in detention in Texas face COVID-19

Houston, Texas Migrants being held in detention in Texas have been facing abhorrent sanitary conditions in the detention facilities long…

April 7, 2020

Prisoners resist execution by virus

On a good day, most of the 5,000 prisons and jails in the U.S. are filthy hellholes. Medical care is…

April 7, 2020

Caravan protests demand ‘Decarcerate now!’

A broad coalition of prison abolition activists took to Philadelphia’s streets in over 120 cars—most with just one occupant—to demand…

April 1, 2020

Georgia ICE detainees stage hunger strike over COVID-19

In a March 26 press release Project South revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Stewart Detention Center…

March 31, 2020