Three years, ago the 2018 National Prison Strike united incarcerated people across 17 states around 10 demands. In order to elevate those demands, incarcerated organizers promoted four actions for inside participants to engage in: work strikes, sit-ins, boycotts and hunger strikes. The outside world took notice worldwide responding to prisoners call to post their demands […]
Ohio Corrections is a fucked up place, but what state’s department of (rehabilitation &) corrections isn’t that chooses to maintain the following conditions: Classifying stamps as contraband Placing people in solitary confinement for five years consistently Placing mentally ill and developmentally disabled people in solitary confinement Blocking individuals placed in restrictive solitary confinement from filing […]
Without An Aggressive Mass Decarceration Effort a Second Wave Will Devastate the United States Black August has been recognized by the prison class as a month of resistance since the early 1970s. The demands of prisoners have not changed much over the decades. Over the last few years, as people in prison expand their networks […]
JLS National Prison Strike Calls Cover Corona Before the conditions of the word crumbled; when people were allowed to gather, rally and protest; prisoners around the world shifted the mass consciousness away from any last remaining tendencies from the “tough-on-crime” era. A spotlight beamed into the darkest corners of society as people in prison in […]
In 2019, we saw unprecedented progress in the conversation surrounding felony disenfranchisement. Last year, over a dozen states introduced legislation towards ending felony disenfranchisement: eleven (CA, WA, CO, IA, MN, CT, NJ, TX, KY, TN, NM) of those states were fighting to restore the voting rights of people immediately upon their release from prison and […]
FRIDAY THE 13th: BURN DAY FOR BIDEN’S CRIME BILL” September 9th will mark the 48th anniversary of the Attica uprising, the 3 year anniversary of the 2016 National Prison strike, and the end date [August 21st – September 9th] of the 2018 National Prison Strike. The 2018 Prison Strike presented a set of 10 National […]
The conditions that people suffer in Immigrant Detention centers didn’t just pop up for immigrants. The methods of arrest for people threatened by ICE aren’t new either. These are conditions of apprehension and incarceration have been inflicted on citizens in the United States, mainly minorities, for years. How can we expect these conditions to be […]
Prisoners Continue to Strike in the Aftermath The organizing abolitionist space is alive and robust in the United States and I’m excited to have witnessed some of the incredible work happening in the organizing space in Gainesville, Florida. Florida led the country with the passing of Amendment 4 that rein franchised hundreds of thousands of […]
The Right2Vote Campaign was born out of 2018’s National Prison Strike where incarcerated citizens led a nationwide demonstration against the abhorrent conditions of United States prisons. The strike was so vast that it spread across 17 states into 3 additional regions outside of the U.S. Prisoners made their demands known worldwide and what seemed to […]
What can we do for the 2.4 millions of men women and trapped in our a nation’s prisons?What can we do for the 38,000 people incarcerated in South Carolina?What can we do for the 1,200 incarcerated in Lee County? We’ve been asking ourselves these questions since the era mass incarceration began to raise eyebrows once […]