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.
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