Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus

When the coronavirus first became a global pandemic in the spring of 2020, there were widespread demands, met with promises…

November 19, 2020

Support Pennsylvania prisoners on hunger strike for human rights

Incarcerated people in many U.S. states have been held in small prison cells for up to 23 hours a day…

October 29, 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

Concentration camps for the poor: Pennsylvania prisons wage war on oppressed workers

Frackville, Pa. -- Tensions in Pennsylvania prisons are at an all time high since the statewide lockdown ordered by Gov.…

July 2, 2019

Pennsylvania inmates subjected to dangerous and demeaning treatment, sexual harassment

Prisoners and prison abolitionists in Pennsylvania have debunked bogus claims by Gov. Tom Wolf and Department of Corrections Secretary John…

March 23, 2019

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

‘Muzzling Mumia’ law struck down

Philadelphia -- Efforts to uphold state-sanctioned muzzling of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and other prisoners seeking to speak out about…

May 14, 2015

World wide pressure to stop the murder of Mumia Abu-Jamal by medical neglect

Philadelphia --  Intensive worldwide efforts have been ramped up to raise awareness of the dire health crisis facing Mumia Abu-Jamal since…

May 4, 2015

National Day of Action supports Mumia Abu-Jamal

April 10 was a National Day of Action for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Protests were held around the country to support this…

April 14, 2015

Activists demand no medical execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Frackville, Pa., April 3 — Car caravans carrying over 40 people travelled from Philadelphia and New York City today to…

April 5, 2015