It is with great sadness, anger, and bitterness, that i have learned of the passing of Russell Maroon Shoatz. A prisoner of war for most of his life, Maroon came to symbolize not only the cruelty of the u.s. prison system, but also the indomitable spirit of resistance. In the …
Some friends have put together a zine collecting the public statements made in memory of Tom Manning since he passed away on July 30th. I wanted to offer it to people today to join in spirit with all those who gathered for Tom’s memorial today in Boston. Tom was a …
Outside support activists have learned of another Texas prisoner dead, due to a combination of guard brutality and medical neglect. For three consecutive nights medical staff were summoned to the cell of Christopher Woolverton, at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, because he was lying on the floor barely responsive. Finally, …
Monday, April 8, 2013 Contact:   Kali Akuno404.567.5938kaliakuno@mxgm.org For Immediate Release: New Annual Report reveals that 313 Black People were killed in 2012, averaging one every 28 hours. Every 28 hours in 2012 someone employed or protected by the US government killed a Black man, woman, or child! This startling fact …
What follows is a message from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, who is currently being held at a behavior modification unit in Oregon, where he suffered a severe health crisis earlier this year. It answers many of the questions we have had since we learned of his predicament. -k February 2013:Â They …
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a New Afrikan Communist prison organizer and intellectual in the United States and one of the founders of the NABPP-PC (New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter). He has spent most of his adult life in the prison system and continually been subjected to political repression and …
Inmate Dies During Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison This troubling news reposted from Solitary Watch: News of a death in Corcoran State Prison’s Administrative Segregation Unit is emerging as an underreported hunger strike in the prison’s ASU comes to a close. Inmates in the ASU are held in …
Marilyn Buck died yesterday, surrounded by friends in Brooklyn. As comrade Judy Greenspan tells us: Marilyn died today not in the hospital but at Soffiyah Elijah’s house, her close friend and attorney with her friends around her. The federal bureau of prisons and the U.S. Criminal injustice system killed Marilyn …
Reposting this important piece from Bound not Gagged: Woman Dies in 107-Degree Cage in Prison: SWOP Remembers Marcia Powell For Immediate ReleaseContacts: SWOP-USA 1-877-7… ext 2Liz Coplen- SWOP-Tucson Peggy Plews- Arizona Prison Watchinfo@swop-tucson.org freemarciapowell@gmail.com On Friday December 18th sex workers from around the country are gathering to remember Marcia Powell, a …
“Gudrun, Andreas and Jan were tortured andmurdered at Stammheim prison” the last in a four part series on the events of October 1977, which culminated in three deaths in Stammheim prison exactly thirty years ago today… The Stammheim “Suicides” (1) In previous installments we have seen how the Red Army …