US prisons
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

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

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

Longest-held US political prisoner Leonard Peltier is hospitalized

Supporters demand the 80-year-old Indigenous freedom fighter be transferred to a medical facility

Missouri has decided to execute an innocent man

Despite DNA evidence indicating that Marcellus Williams is innocent, the Governor of Missouri has chosen to proceed with his execution

Leonard Peltier denied parole

Longest-held political prisoner in United States and Indigenous freedom fighter continues to maintain innocence

NUMSA welcomes message of support from US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

The South African metalworkers’ union continues to urge US Judge Lucretia Clemmons to release Mumia Abu-Jamal who has been in prison for over four decades

Puerto Rican prisoner of conscience, Ana Belén Montes, to be released

Belen Montes, former US intelligence analyst who used her position to alleviate the blockade and attacks against Cuba, is set to be released from US prison

US political prisoner Mutulu Shakur granted parole

After over 36 years in prison, movement elder, political prisoner, and revolutionary health worker Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole with less than six months to live

US private prison industry: Profiting from exploitation and suffering

Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News talks about the high rates of incarceration in the US and the role of the private prison sector in intensifying the crisis

Alabama prisoners organize a system-wide shut down

On September 26 Alabama prison officials made a rare admission: prisoners had initiated work stoppages at every single major correctional facility in the state.