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The largest inmate protest in US history
by Boyce Watkins, PhD Part 1: Major protests at six Georgia prisons: Inmates demand human rights Rodriques Dukes in his cell at Hays State Prison in Trion, Georgia – Photo: Derek Bell Inmates at six...
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Georgia prisoners’ strike: What would Dr. King say or do?
Community coalition meets with Georgia corrections officials, visits first prison by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon with assistance from Ingemar Smith “The prisoners have done all they can do now....
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A hunger striker’s journal, Part 3: Who is watching the guards?
by Richard Wembe Johnson Richard Wembe Johnson, a prisoner who recently suffered a heart attack due to a blocked artery in his heart, is among the hunger strikers at Pelican Bay. Since the beginning of...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal files challenge to illegal sentence of life imprisonment...
Free Mumia now! The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal presents Valerie Jones, author of ‘Veronica and the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,’ and attorney Rachel Wolkenstein Sept. 7-8, 7 p.m.:...
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California prisoners make historic call to end hostilities between racial...
Full original text of Agreement to End Hostilities posted below by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Oakland – Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have...
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The horrifying existence of solitary confinement
by James Simmons Imagine being locked in a cage alone for 22 ½ hours a day, sometimes for decades on end, with no normal human contact ever and no exposure to direct sunlight ever. Now imagine that...
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Real rap
by Shuja Moore Yo. You. Yea, you with DOC (Department of Corrections) printed on your back. Naw, don’t turn the page … WAKE UP! Better yet, look around. Like what you see? I know the streets were live:...
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Wanda Sabir and the Bay View save lives
by S. Muhammad Hyland Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir I could tell that the guard at my cell door was uptight about something, and when he slid the mail to me, I immediately noticed why: My Bay View...
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Gov. Brown, govern the people and prisons of California with respect and...
by Richard Wembe Johnson In recent times there has been an avalanche of misrepresentations, deceit, cover-ups and outright lies waged against the truth as it relates to prisoners and what is really...
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Pelican Bay hunger strike reps to legislators and supporters: Tell California...
by the Pelican Bay Short Corridor Representatives Oct. 9, 2013 – As human beings who are committed to securing human rights for all people confined in California’s prisons, the Short Corridor...
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The too-many prisoners dilemma
Prisons are a vast, undercovered but important beat; here’s why we need more criminal justice coverage by Dan Froomkin There’s a growing national consensus that, as Attorney General Eric Holder stated...
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State and federal prisons persecute Nation of Gods and Earth (Five Percenters)
by Immortality Exegetical 120 Allah (Randal Best) I write to commend you for a job well done in covering and telling the horrors and realities that we behind enemy lines are subjected to. I understand...
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Women in solitary confinement: ‘The isolation degenerates us into madness’
by Victoria Law A mass prisoner hunger strike rocked California’s prison system this past summer, drawing international attention to the extensive use of solitary confinement in the United States....
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Power concedes nothing, Part 2: a discussion on retaliation, censorship and...
by the NCTT-Cor-SHU “Free discussion of the problems of society is a cardinal principal of Americanism … Censorship is utterly foreign to our way of life; it smacks of dictatorship.” – U.S. Supreme...
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Pack the courtroom for the Dallas 6
The Dallas 6 trial, begun Nov. 10, is back in session at least through Nov. 20 at Luzerne County Courthouse; transportation is available to and from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh – email...
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Prison closings in Virginia mean worse conditions for prisoners
by Robert Machado Prisons are closing in Virginia. Officials say they can’t afford to keep them open. “Fight Mass Containment” – Art: Roger “Rab” Moore, G-02296, HDSP Z-168, P.O. Box 3030, Susanville...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: After 34 years of wrongful incarceration, showdown in...
by the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, Coalition to Free Mumia, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and MOVE In Philadelphia on Dec. 9, 2015, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal...
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At Mumia’s Hep C hearing, ‘We rocked the court!’
by Johanna Fernandez, The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Supporters gather outside the federal courthouse in Scranton, where they “rocked the court.” – Photo: Joe Piette It was an amazing day yesterday...
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The passive aggressive murder of a living legend
by Wilberto Belardo Mumia Abu-Jamal has been targeted by the government since the 1960s when he was a spokesman for the Black Panther Party. In the ‘70s he became a journalist, which gave him a larger...
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Forcing out two women’s prison wardens is scapegoating, not accountability
by Misty Rojo On the surface, the recent “retirement” of the wardens from two of California’s women’s facilities appears to be a needed move in an effort to reform California’s violent correctional...
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