Prisons: tear them down

Prison crackdown, prisoner boycott

This Workers World interview was conducted with Pennsylvania prison activist Bryant Arroyo in SCI Frackville on Sept. 23. The Pennsylvania…

November 8, 2018

‘The Sentence’: An intersectional view of mass incarceration

In January, HBO purchased the rights to the independent documentary “The Sentence” following its success at the Sundance Film Festival.…

October 31, 2018

New evidence of Castille’s bias in Mumia Abu-Jamal case

As supporters demonstrated in the streets outside Philadelphia’s Criminal Justice Center on Oct. 29, inside the courthouse attorneys for political…

October 30, 2018

ONAMOVE! Free at last!

Political prisoner Mike Africa Sr. (above, right) was finally released on Oct. 23, after more than 40 years in prison.…

October 26, 2018

LEROY JONES: Pleas for love, trust and prison abolition

Nevada prisoner Leroy Jones is desperately fighting to clear his name. Regardless of the outcome of his appeals, while he…

October 25, 2018

‘Texas says death row, we say hell no!’

Austin, Texas — Death row families, death row exonerees, activists and abolitionists gathered at the Texas Capitol today in a…

October 25, 2018

The evidence is there: Release Mumia now!

On Oct. 29, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal will be back in court in Philadelphia for yet another hearing.  This will be…

October 24, 2018

In Philadelphia, a protest of draconian state prison policies

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is backing draconian measures to restrict mail, books and periodicals available to prisoners. On Oct. 10,…

October 13, 2018

‘Man power’

Taken from a Sept. 23 audio recording on prisonradio.org. It has been over a generation since the U.S. Senate hearings…

October 10, 2018

Inmates in Pennsylvania launch boycott of prison profiteers

“I am going to boycott the third-party correspondence system,” Bryant Arroyo, an activist and organizer currently detained at SCI Frackville…

September 25, 2018