prisoners’ rights
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Alice Walker on Sister Assata
I don’t know why, given where we are with dronefare, but I didn’t expect the man making the announcement about…
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Hundreds gather in Philadelphia to celebrate Mumia’s 59th birthday
Hundreds of people gathered in Philadelphia on April 24 to celebrate the 59th birthday of the “world’s most famous prisoner,”…
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Students Against Mass Incarceration hold successful first conference
Well over 100 people descended on Howard University on April 19 and 20 for the first national conference of Students…
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Petition to free Lynne Stewart
The ANSWER Coalition urges its members and supporters to sign this urgent petition to free Lynne Stewart.
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Oregon prisoners driven to suicide by torture in solitary confinement units
The following essay was published Feb. 27 on the website rashidmod.com.
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Palestinian Arafat Jaradat gets hero’s funeral after death in Israeli custody
The following statement was posted on the website of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
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Say no to mass incarceration!
While people in the U.S. account for only 5 percent of the world's population, the 2.4 million people languishing in…
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Wilmington 10 pardoned
The recent pardon of the Wilmington 10 re-excavates not only the 1971 events that lead to their arrests, but also…
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Pelican Bay prison striker: broken promises and the same oppressive conditions
I continue to believe our principal demand should be to abolish SHUs in general and I work tirelessly to build…
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Capitalism restricts democratic rights
More than 60 percent of the people held in the jails of the United States—the country with the highest number…
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