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 […]
As an ignorant US born person, an ongoing war in a foreign land felt like the unfortunate repercussion of my citizenship. While captive in this mindset, foreign regions promoted in corporate media stories as terror threats were represented as “places of endless war”. This is the position that the Middle East holds for many, but […]
I avoided going to the place that one has to be in order to do the research and reflection required to write this piece. My passion for umoja pushed me to love enough to share through my fear. Now that we as a community have felt the impact of judicial validation, we realize that a […]
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 […]
Impactful Political Organizing while in Quarantine Resource List Links Elements of Traditional Community Organizing: https://www.movementmatters.net/ 2018 National Prison Strike Event Overview: https://sawarimi.org/national-prison-strike Jailhouse Lawyers Speak: https://sawarimi.org/jls-prisoners-initiative Solid Black Fist NPS Newsletter: https://sawarimi.org/npsnewsletter Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign: https://harvardprisondivest.org/ University Beyond Bars: http://www.universitybeyondbars.org/ Books to Prisoners: https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/ Jpay Paid Emailing Vendor: www.jpay.com Connect Network, Phone Calling Vendor: […]
The Coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the lives of people all over the world, especially those in prison. While the CDC has posted their recommendations for all people to follow, prisoners have no freedom to protect themselves from the spread. People in prison are limited in their ability to keep a safe […]
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 […]
Being one of the first areas to have encountered Covid-19, the West Coast is ahead of the rest of the country in its response and preventative efforts. Like many states the entry of nonessential personnel into state facilities have been suspended, this includes visitation, extended family visits, social outings and work release as well as […]
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 […]