In the recent years of the the prison resistance movement, new methods for inside organizing have tremendously pushed inside organizers cause forward. People in prison had pleaded for more human conditions and just policies since before the years of the Attica revolution in 1971 that promoted 35 demands around these issues. During the early 70s […]
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 […]
Last month prisoners at Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) were notified that all those being housed in Intensive Management Unit (IMU) would have their hot meals terminated on November 7. Administration stated that was being done as a ‘pilot program’ for reducing violence in the unit. Prisoners did not foresee that the unit wide mandatory […]
During the National Prison Strike Jailhouse Lawyers Speak inspired incarcerated and outside activists across the country. Activists on the outside were inspired by prisoners leadership on the inside, their ability to work effectively through limited communication and the threat of retaliation. After the strike incarcerated people were inspired by the activism that happened across the […]
YOUNGSTOWN OH- Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a revolutionary organizer and outspoken advocate of the national prisoner rights movement has appealed the Ohio Department of Correction (ODRC) decision that restricted him from communication access for a year of more leading up to the Agust 21- September 9 nationwide prison strike. In his appeal Imam Hasan states: “The fabricated charges in my conduct report, the […]
Recently there has been a rise of worker strikes happening throughout the country. Throughout Western Washington construction workers have been on strike. Construction workers have been striking unsafe working conditions for decades. Teachers are striking in Tumwater and have been striking for years about their inadequate wages. Recently I saw a documentary that highlighted NFL […]
[Rally at Lee Correctional Facility in Bishopsville, SC in support and solidarity with striking prisoners yesterday] This is a question that a lot of people do not have a solid answer to. I’m writing this article in response to a comment that I’ve seen in response to local media coverage about the national prison strike. […]
Many people are aware of the prison strike that began August 21 on the 47th anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination in 1971. Some of those following the strike are confused by the conflicting messages that are being sent out by states’ departments of corrections. It’s clear that prison officials are doing all that they can […]
This may be too radial for some of you but so was the idea of a world without slaves. The existence of prisons in our country points to a lack of concern for those groups of our population that are trapped within them: brown, black and poor people. We’ve seen through many examples over this […]
What are prisons for? Are they to help inmates become better people then who they were when they entered by preparing them for a productive life in society? Or are prisons for warehousing people to lock away and forget? Think about your response to that question, is the ideal hope or does your response actually […]