Prisons: tear them down

PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies

Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months…

May 1, 2020

A Delaware prisoner’s plea for PPE

This letter is from a prisoner at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in New Castle County, Delaware.  Two prisoners have…

May 1, 2020

Austin: ‘Justice 4 Mike Ramos!’

Austin, Texas The Austin Police Department carried out an extrajudicial killing of 42-year-old Michael Brent Ramos, known as “Mike,” on…

April 30, 2020

Holding true to the abolitionist framework

Here is a slightly edited transcript of Amber-Rose Howard’s talk during the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Howard is…

April 30, 2020

Columbus car protest demands prisoner release

Columbus, Ohio Over 100 cars, driven by people from all over Ohio, circled the state’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction…

April 30, 2020

On Mumia’s birthday, global event honors political prisoners

By Mirinda Crissman and Judy Greenspan From behind prison walls nearly 39 years, Mumia Abu Jamal continues to educate, energize…

April 29, 2020

U.S. is a prison house of oppressed peoples

Based on a talk given during an April 9 Workers World Party national webinar: “Free them all! COVID-19 and racist…

April 28, 2020

Happy birthday, Mumia!

A global audience was able to view a virtual press conference on April 23 focused on journalist and Pennsylvania political…

April 27, 2020

A message to my supporters

This slightly edited April 24 commentary by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to his supporters on his 66th birthday is available…

April 27, 2020

Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters respond quickly to prison hoax

When a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson callously claimed that Mumia Abu-Jamal was being hospitalized with COVID-19 at 5 p.m.…

April 22, 2020