Prisons

Microaggressions in the prisons

By Cindy Lou By this time we are all too familiar with the horrific violence and racist oppression that takes…

June 30, 2023

Prisoners and family members demand care not jails

Dublin, California In what was an incredibly moving ceremony and protest, former prisoners, family members, clergy, prison abolitionists and community…

April 6, 2023

News whiteout of Pennsylvania prison strike

Philadelphia Incarcerated workers held captive in Pennsylvania prisons called a labor strike in the name of Subaltern Peoples Abolitionist Revolutionary…

January 9, 2023

Incarcerated lives endangered in freezing conditions

In analyzing the heroic 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, Sam Marcy, the late chairperson of Workers World Party, wrote in the…

January 5, 2023

Health care in prisons is a crime

If you have the misfortune of being convicted of a crime, innocent or not, what’s it like behind bars if…

December 15, 2022

Louisiana youth to be jailed on Angola former death row

On Sept. 23, Louisiana Chief District Judge Shelly Dick ruled that incarcerated youth in New Orleans can be moved to…

October 6, 2022

Alabama prisoners wage massive strike

Oct. 2 — Launched with the cry, “We will no longer contribute to our own oppression,” thousands of incarcerated workers…

October 4, 2022

A turning point in American corrections

first posted September 9, 2021 The following lightly edited commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal aired as part of the “50 Years…

September 12, 2022

Extreme weather and mass incarceration deaths

Houston Across the hottest places in the U.S., people in prisons, jails and detention centers often face unbearable and sometimes…

July 20, 2022

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

June 26, 2022