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Update on ‘Bay View First Amendment Campaign’
by Anthony D. Prince, Esq. The Bay View First Amendment Campaign, thanks to human rights attorney Anthony Prince, is applying legal decisions and principles in fresh new ways that should lead to...
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Statement of solidarity with Georgia prisoner strike
Add your signature at http://www.petitiononline.com/wagesnow/petition.html : On Friday, some 75 activists braved a cold driving wind and drenching rain to demonstrate their solidarity with the brave...
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Locked down, exploited and mistreated
Concern rises about inmates allegedly beaten by guards in Georgia strike and mistreatment of prisoners detained in institutions across the country by Charlene Muhammad and Starla Muhammad, Final Call...
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Who are the hunger strikers? How prisoners land in Pelican Bay’s SHU
by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway An aerial view of Pelican Bay State Prison – Photo: California Department of Corrections Sympathy for the prisoners on hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit at...
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Groups urge Congresswoman Lee to push back against federal prison phone...
by Brandi Collins A family that has managed to stay close despite the high cost of prison phone calls is reunited on visiting day. A delegation representing Bay Area organizations met with the deputy...
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FCC takes step toward fair prison phone rates and stronger communities
by the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice Washington, D.C. – On Dec. 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a critical step toward lowering the cost of calls made from prisons, issuing a...
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Prisoners’ peaceful protest to resume July 8 if demands are not met
Attention Gov. Jerry Brown, CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Beard and all other parties in interest by Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit Short Corridor Representatives Todd Ashker, Arturo...
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Treating us like slaves: an analysis of the Security Threat Group Step Down...
by Dadisi Kambon, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Mutope Duguma and Abasi Ganda For the past two years we’ve heard the state claim it’s reforming its long term...
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Prison hunger strikers face reprisals as papers that back them are censored
by John Studer Since some 30,000 California prisoners launched a hunger strike July 8 against the practice of long-term solitary confinement and other abuses, participants have faced punitive...
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Major law firm opposes new rules that could ban the Bay View from all...
This letter, from attorney Leila Knox of Bryan Cave LLP, one of the world’s largest law firms, was emailed and mailed on July 13, 2014, to Regulation and Policy Management Chief Timothy M. Lockwood,...
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Attorney Anne Butterfield Weills: ‘Obscenity’ regs show ‘CDCR views many of...
by Anne Butterfield Weills To: Timothy M. Lockwood, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Regulation and Policy Management Branch, on June 17, 2014 Re: CDCR Notice of Change to...
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Inside a CCA private prison: Two slaves for the price of one, Part Two
by Anthony Robinson Jr. “The slave went free, stood a brief moment in the sun, then moved back again towards slavery.” – W.E.B. Du Bois, “Black Reconstruction” Anthony Robinson Jr. In 1973, the...
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Inside a CCA private prison: Two slaves for the price of one, Part Three
The People vs. CCA by Anthony Robinson Jr. “How frightening it is to see people choose not to see what’s in front of them.” – Stuart Grassian, Massachusetts psychiatrist Corrections Corporation of...
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Prison officials, ACA inspectors ignore contaminated water in Texas prisons
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington “Multi-racial unity among and across oppressed and exploited groups is necessary for revolutionary alliance that can win but must be built upon the basis of independent...
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Exposing toxic work conditions inside Texas Prisons
by Keith “Malik” Washington and David “Chino” Martinez “Our current form of capitalism has no concept of right and wrong. It only recognizes what is profitable and what you can get away with. And when...
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Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blue Print
Overview by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) has systemic and dysfunctional problems that run rampant statewide within California’s prisons for both...
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Incarceration, justice and the planet
Could the fight against toxic prisons shape the future of environmentalism? by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisons inspire little in terms of natural wonder. It might be a weed rises through a crack and blooms...
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Help prisoners break the ban on Bay View
It’s time to make a way out of no way. Censorship of the Bay View around the country – originally because prison authorities fear the widespread prison strikes to end slavery – appears to have become a...
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From media cutoffs to lockdown, tracing the fallout from the U.S. prison strike
by Kamala Kelkar Prisoners in a walkway at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, are being processed for release at the completion of their sentences. – Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein, Corbis Dec. 18, 2016...
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Why isn’t ‘prison reform’ seeking an effective demand for change?
by Anthony Robinson “A criminal justice system is a mirror in which a whole society sees the darker outlines of its face. Our ideas of justice and evil take on visible form in it, and thus we see...
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