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We must affect the bottom line

Part III: Campaign to Redistribute the Pain 2018 by Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, formerly known as Melvin Ray, Free Alabama Movement While the Montgomery (Ala.) Bus Boycott is the most well-known of the...

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Boycott, Defund, Bankrupt – Say NO to canteen, incentive packages, collect...

Part VI: Campaign to Redistribute the Pain 2018 by Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, fka Melvin Ray, Free Alabama Movement Fire burns off the dross of the hidden gem to reveal the precious metal. In struggle, it...

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Kinetik speaks: ‘In segregation or on the yard, the message is the same –...

by Kinetik Justice Amun (Robert Earl Council), Free Alabama Movement Kinetik raises a Black Power fist as he holds his June Bay View. With strength and optimism, I greet the Comrades and salute the...

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End prison slavery in Texas now – Part 3: Knockin’ doors down

by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington, Chief Spokesperson for the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement “Collective Struggle” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 264847, Pendleton Correctional Facility, G-20-2C, 4490...

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Aramark is pimping the Georgia DOC

by Willie Coe Aramark’s contract with the Michigan DOC for $145 million over three years was terminated in 2015 after negative headlines proliferated in press around the state. An advocacy group,...

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Federal court in Louisiana ignores COVID terror inside FCI Oakdale

“Comrade Malik” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 264847, Pendleton Correctional Facility, G-20-2C, 4490 W. Reformatory Road, Pendleton, IN 46064 by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington FCI Elkton is a low-security...

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Open Prison Initiative

In this famous photo by the great Black photographer Gordon Parks, “six Black children face a chain-link fence, peering into a park on the opposite side. Two of them clutch the gate, hoping to gain...

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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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