Mass incarceration
Coloradans organize free buses for mothers to visit loved ones behind bars

Buses will go from Denver to Arkansas Valley Prison in Southern Colorado, an over two hour journey, to help mothers visit their incarcerated children

CECOT- Bukele’s mega prison where “the only way out is in a coffin” CECOT: Bukele’s mega prison where “the only way out is in a coffin”

The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.

Death of New York inmate Robert Brooks is the tip of the iceberg of prison brutality

New York State prison guards went on a wildcat strike following some of their own being held accountable for the inmate’s death

Black prisoners organize for dignity in Angola, Louisiana’s modern-day plantation

Louisiana State Penitentiary is nicknamed after the former plantation site that it sits on. Those incarcerated at the prison say the practice of slavery is still alive and well

Biden commutes sentences of roughly 1,500 and pardons 39, as human rights organizations demand death penalty pardons

Biden commutes sentences of roughly 1,500 and pardons 39, but includes no current political prisoners who continue to languish behind bars

Prisoners are setting themselves on fire to draw attention to abuses at a Virginia prison

A string of self-immolations at Red Onion State Prison has drawn attention to the violence of the system of mass incarceration

In the US, voting is a privilege, not a right

People in the US are set to head to the polls soon to decide their next president. But the country has yet to contend with a past and present reality of voter suppression

Advocates fight to stop execution of innocent death row prisoner Marcellus Williams in less than a week

William’s execution is set for September 24 despite DNA evidence proving him innocent, his legal team pledges to keep up the fight

Incarcerated organizers complete eight weeks of Alabama prison shutdown

Prisoners in Alabama have been organizing for years against a prison system which upholds modern day slavery

Alabama prisoners organize against a system rigged to maintain a system of modern day slavery

Alabama prisoners lead struggle against “most violent and inhumane prison system in the country”

Bukele reelected in El Salvador amid a state of exception

The polarizing figure Nayib Bukele won the presidential elections with 85% of the votes, a historic margin of victory over the opposing candidates

Ruchell Magee wins his release after 67 years in shackles

At 83 years old, US political prisoner Ruchell “Cinque” Magee is to be released following a lifetime spent under the boot of oppression