North Carolina: Central Prisoners Vote to End Hunger Strike

We just received word that earlier this week prisoners at Central in Raleigh voted to end their hunger strike, started on July 16th in protest of conditions on Unit 1. We have not heard from prisoners at Bertie or Scotland. Small groups of prisoners at Foothills CI and Tabor CI have also said they have [...]

April 24, 2012-OCCUPY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND END MASS INCARCERATION!

On April 24, 2012, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 58th birthday, we will gather at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C and amplify our formal request that Attorney General Eric Holder meet with a delegation to discuss police corruption and civil rights violations. Join Danny Glover, Frances Fox Piven, Norman Finkelstein, and M1 of Dead Prez and [...]

Activism Aims to Support Political Prisoners

“When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.”  –Ho Chi Minh The Internationalist Prison Books Collective (IPBC) puts together a poster every month with information about political prisoners (PPs) and prisoners of war (POWs) incarcerated in the United States, along with their addresses whose birthdays are that month. In April last year [...]

Immortal Technique Speaks On Prisons

Locked Up and Won’t Let Me Out

Checkout the former director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and holder of a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, Michelle Alexander, speak to a crowd in New York about her new best-selling [...]