By: Mr. Jermaine Glenn, incarcerated in MDOC Kinross Correctional Facility Never in my wildest nightmares have I imagined or experienced anything like the Covid-19 pandemic. It takes us back to the influenza pandemic in 1918 when we lost 50 – 100 million people globally and roughly 675,000 lives nationally. That was over a 100 years […]
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 […]
Over the past month as the Coronavirus pandemic has swept across the United States, precautions have been made to protect residents including enhancements to operational capacity of health care facilities, closing of non-essential business and the establishment of statewide lockdowns that mandate individuals to self-quarantine. Unfortunately these provisions have not extended far enough to protect […]
Written by Vincent Sherrill incarcerated in WADOC, Monroe Correctional Complex This is not a CORONATIONfor some old dusty ass monarchremnant of an oppressive pastand no College team will be CrownedNCAA Tournament Champions. This is more like a CORONACHa dedication poem or psalma platinum songsung by angelic cherubimas families place gold coinstoll for the boatmanfor those […]
We are only as safe from an epidemic as our most vulnerable are. At this time communities across the country are aware of the risks of not practicing the five habits that help to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. We have been encouraged to self-quarantine and many have been “locked down” for weeks. Some […]
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 […]
Like many states across the country, Michigan has reached a critical point in the status of its Corrections Department and citizens are fed up. The Department’s failures expand across the spectrum of corrections from financially and operatively to their regularly inadequate programming and continually degrading prison conditions. These mounting issues incite the need for deep […]
Direct Call to Action These prisoners have risked their lives as outspoken organizers to improve the conditions of Ohio State prisons and advocate for prisoners human rights. They are being threatened with being moved out of state away from their loved ones in retaliation for their political activity. The act of doing so is a […]
After decades of over sentencing and mass incarceration plaguing Michiganians, community members are taking the problem of Michigan’s criminal legal system back into their hands, the way it always should have been. At this point the state of Michigan’s Department of Corrections is so far behind that of so many states in the process of […]