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Dear Friend, An email is truly not enough space to describe the public health nightmare that is the women’s prison in Ypsilanti, Michigan (Women’s Huron Valley, WHV). The decrepit building hosts decades old ventilation systems,… Read More
“We could not save Malcolm X, but we can save Mumia. We can save him, and we must save him, because we love our Brother, and we need our Brother to help us fight for… Read More
Dear Friend, Every person below is someone’s father, brother, or mother. They died alone. Struggling for breath. PA Dept. of Corrections (DOC) has changed its policy and will now only report the 1st Death from… Read More
Dear Friend, Now more than ever, we all acutely aware that trust is a crucial part of delivering public health – how can we follow advice and accept health care if we have no trust in… Read More
Dear Friend, According to The Sentencing Project, 5.17 million people have been legally stripped their right to vote based on a felony conviction. The prison-industrial complex suppresses our people’s right to political power long after they… Read More
Dear Friend, It’s been an intense and challenging year for all of us. COVID continues to ravage our country, and our prisons and the demand for racial justice is still going strong. We need to… Read More
Russell Maroon Shoats Human Rights Coalition members and family of PA prisoners held in long-term solitary were featured on Law and Disorder radio this Monday. Theresa Shoats discusses how the PA DOC has kept her father, HRC… Read More
‘The Government Wants Me to Die Here’ UPDATE 8/15/2011 from Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee (Leonard Peltier’s original letter published below has been edited to reflect this update): Supporters should know that Mr. Peltier has recently… Read More
http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/ After hunger strike leaders reached an agreement last week with the CDCR to end the hunger strike that swept across California’s prison system, prisoners have started to transition to eating food again. However this… Read More
The following are messages of solidarity for the people of Japan by U.S. prisoners, two of whom are on Death Row. The messages were written, translated into Japanese, and sent to anti-nuclear and political prisoner… Read More
by Black Ageneda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking book, The New Jim Crow, is an outstanding expose of the horrors of America’s criminal justice system that are perpetrated against black people. It is… Read More
Revolutionary Salute and Shields Up! It has come to our attention that the brothers at the Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit will commence on indefinite hunger strike on July 1, 2011, to protest… Read More
The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal invites you to attend two Labor Fest Events in San Francisco: 1. Labor and Political Prisoners: From Hoshino to Mumia Friday July 15th, 7 pm 518 Valencia,… Read More
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com. July 4, 2011 In New York Magazine, Steven Fishman has a lengthy profile of Bradley Manning that purports to shed new light on the accused WikiLeaks leaker. The only aspect of Fishman’s article… Read More
This week Amnesty International launched a global campaign calling for the authorities in the United States to end the solitary confinement of Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. They state that “the treatment to which the… Read More
From Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report Vowing to die, if necessary, inmates at the dreaded “SHU” section of California’s Pelican Bay prison begin a hunger strike on July 1. “Like the strike by inmates in… Read More
Interview with Laura Whitehorn and Ed Mead on KPFA Listen to a great interview with Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner and long-time organizer in the struggle for liberation, and Ed Mead, a former prisoner, co-founder… Read More
We are running Lynne Stewart’s tribute to Geronimo Pratt below. For more tributes, including pieces from Mumia Abu-Jama, Leonard Peltier, and others, go HERE. To listen to Mumia’s commentary from Prison Radio go HERE. Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt by Lynne… Read More
By Jeff Paterson, Courage to Resist “God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms… I want people to see the truth… because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”… Read More
From IndyBay: Prisoners Plan Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay in Crescent City. Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California announced that they are beginning an indefinite hunger… Read More
