prisoners’ rights
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Military-industrial complex super-exploits prison labor
News reports indicate materials used by the U.S. military while bombing Libya were made with the labor of prisoners in…
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Study: Guantanamo doctors did nothing to stop torture
A recent study concludes that doctors and mental health personnel at the Guantanamo detention center were complicit in torture of…
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Bradley Manning transferred to Kansas
Military authorities recently announced that accused Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning has been transferred to Leavenworth prison.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal wins new sentencing hearing
Although his conviction still stands, political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has won a new sentencing hearing in a decision by a…
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Baltimore activists rally to free Eddie Conway
On April 23, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation joined dozens of spirited activists for a rally in…
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Study exposes prison phone price gouging
Not only are prisoners ripped off by the prisoner telephone industry but the jails, prisons and detention centers routinely make…
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Prisons break laws to obtain death penalty drugs
In order to more quickly execute death row prisoners, Georgia prison officials bypassed drug laws to have lethal-injection drugs shipped…
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International workers’ solidarity is not a crime
March 29 2011 marks the 60th anniversary of the conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Read this article previously published…
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Victory against racist death penalty in Illinois
After years of struggle against the racist, anti-worker death penalty, Illinois officially abolished capital punishment on March 9.
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Harlem memorial honors Joe Little
Around 70 people gathered in East Harlem to celebrate the life of Joseph Little, a PSL member, veteran of the…
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