Incarcerated Peoples Rights

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Hunger Strike at SCI Phoenix

At least 13 prisoners at SCI Phoenix, the Pennsylvania prison with the largest population, began a 10-day hunger strike in late June that ended on July 4. Their action was in response to the Intensive… Read More

Free Sundiata Acoli

Sundiata Acoli, born in 1939, is a New Afrikan political prisoner of war, mathematician, and computer analyst. Sundiata has been incarcerated since 1973, when he and two comrades, Zayd and Assata Shakur, were ambushed at the New Jersey… Read More

Women Prisoners Continue to Report on Inhumane Conditions

Naykima Hill’s April 14th call to Prison Radio opened the floodgates of commentaries documenting the appalling reality of daily life at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) in Michigan. India Porter, Auroniece Jackson, Sharon Hinojosa,… Read More

Abusers of Justice Exposed!

Dear Friend, “The criminal justice system in America is one of the biggest abusers of justice,” – Izell Robinson, a 39-year-old correspondent who has been incarcerated for the last 8 years. He is currently located in MCF… Read More

Women Prisoners Expose Mold, Scabies, and Abuse

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

Urgent: Mumia to Undergo Heart Surgery

“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

Surge in Deaths and DOC Coverup!

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

Trusting Prison Medical Staff?

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

Voter Suppression

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

Quest For Freedom

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

Solitary Confinement Torture in PA

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

Leonard Peltier Releases Letter from the Hole (UPDATED 8/15)

‘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

Building a Movement to End Solitary Confinement, Against Imprisonment

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

U.S. Prisoners Speak Out Against Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

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

Prison Slave Labor

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

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