Prisons: tear them down

With COVID-19 a prison sentence = death sentence

Prisons are concentration camps for the poor -- disproportionately Black, Brown, Indigenous, migrant, disabled and, increasingly, elderly. Prisons are especially…

March 24, 2020

Anti-war hero Chelsea Manning released from prison

Chelsea Manning, a hero to antiwar activists, was finally released March 12 from prison after years of on-and-off incarceration for…

March 18, 2020

Demonstrators call for freedom for Mumia, slam state’s efforts to delay justice

Flanked by a large white “Bird of Freedom” wearing a “Free Mumia” sign, dozens of activists from Philadelphia and New…

March 4, 2020

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections refuses to distribute Workers World to prisoners

This article is based on a March 2 national press release. For the second time in less than three months,…

March 3, 2020

State makes last-ditch effort to deny Mumia justice

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has a long and openly biased history when it comes to justice for political prisoner Mumia…

March 2, 2020

The anti-war presidential candidate

Eugene V. Debs ran for president in 1920 from a prison cell where he had been thrown because of his…

February 24, 2020

Anatomy of a hunger strike: A prisoner speaks

By: Demetrius Grant/ Joe Piette, editor ‘I went on a hunger strike because of the unconstitutional, inhumane and repressive conditions.’…

February 11, 2020

Released at last: Welcome home, Move 9 member Chuck Africa!

Philadelphia Imprisoned since he was only 18, Charles Sims Africa was finally released from Pennsylvania’s SCI Fayette on Feb. 7. …

February 10, 2020

Philadelphia/Rally to free Mumia highlights exonerations of unfairly convicted Black men

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s supporters rallied outside Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office on Jan. 31. That day he was expected to…

February 5, 2020

Delbert Africa: Free!

This column was transcribed from an audio recording posted on prisonradio.org on Jan. 20. MOVE member, Delbert Africa, held in…

January 27, 2020