incarceration

Can Brittney Griner’s release expose U.S. hypocrisy on prisons?

As the majority of the world knows by now, Brittney Griner, a star player with the Women’s National Basketball Association’s…

December 13, 2022

In Pennsylvania prison, gender affirmation victory

In an email thanking the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP), the first person — identified in court documents as Mx.…

November 11, 2022

Rhode Island activists demand local job funding

Providence, Rhode Island Oct. 19 — “Organize! Mobilize! Fightback!” The sound of the tenor drumbeat reverberated up the sweeping staircase…

November 7, 2022

When incarceration is housing policy–a WW commentary

In 1987, the notorious racist Frank Rizzo was trying to claw his way back into Philadelphia City Hall. He had…

November 1, 2022

Reproductive justice and the U.S. carceral system

The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had…

July 8, 2022

Letters from behind the walls

Workers World Staff, I am incarcerated in SCI Albion in Pennsylvania. I came across an older newspaper and love the…

June 26, 2022

Free Mumia! Free ‘Em All! Support WW reporting

The U.S. has the highest percentage of its population in prisons — more than any other country in the world…

June 26, 2022

Atlanta: ‘What’s the Call? Free them all!’

Atlanta The defense committees for Mutulu Shakur, Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) and Kamau Sidiki, three Black liberation…

June 17, 2022

Folkston detainees, immigrant rights activists chant together

Folkston, Georgia April 16 – Multiple organizations forming the Coalition to Shut Down ICE in Georgia have been giving special…

April 22, 2022

May Day:  A clarion call to free them all!  

On May 1, 1886, the American Federation of Labor organized militant actions demanding the right of all workers to an…

April 22, 2022