Prisoners
Kevan Thakrar challenges torture in HMP Full Sutton and Belmarsh
By Supporters of Kevan Thakrar
On 25 and 26 April 2023, Kevan Thakrar, a young Muslim man, is bringing a legal challenge in the High Court against his prolonged and indefinite solitary confinement in prison segregation.
Read MoreSupport prisoners in Alabama on strike against slavery
By Payday & Global Women’s Strike
We send greetings and solidarity to our sisters and brothers in the Alabama prison struggle, (…)
Your demand as workers who get no wages strengthens the struggle against slavery everywhere.
Supporting Prisoners: Mumia Abu Jamal
By Payday men’s network
Mumia Abu Jamal, an award-winning journalist was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1982 in a trial ‘drenched with racism’. While pressure got Mumia off death row, he has never stopped fighting injustices inside and outside the prison walls.
Read MoreSupporting Prisoners: Russell Maroon Shoatz
By Payday men’s network
Black Panthers member Russell Maroon Shoatz was jailed in 1972 in connection with the death of a police officer and spent 29 years in solitary confinement. Yet he never stopped opposing injustices inside and outside prison.
Read MoreDetainees win historic ruling on minimum wage
By Gene Johnson, Seattle Times
A US federal jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay minimum wage — rather than $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state.
Read MoreProtesting Royal College of Psychiatrists endorsement of abuse and cruelty
By Payday men’s network
On Monday 28 June, Legal Action for Women, Payday men’s network and Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike coordinated a protest against the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) supported by Prisoner Solidarity Network, Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association, Community Action on Prison Expansion and Figh
Read MoreNo to solitary confinement: Free Kevan Thakrar
Payday men’s network
Kevan Thakrar was wrongly convicted of murder and attempted murder in 2008 under “joint enterprise”, the legal rule by which a member of a group can be convicted of a crime even if he/she didn’t commit it. In 2010, he was was put in solitary confinement in Close Supervision Centres (CSC), locked in his cell 23 h/day.
Read MoreSolitary confinement is a crime Webinar
By Legal Action for Women, Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike, Payday men’s network
Watch a wide-ranging panel of speakers from around the world as well as so many justice campaigners making their case against cruel and inhumane solitary confinement.
Read MoreDon’t deport Maru Mora Villalpando
By Payday men’s network
Long time immigration rights activist Maru Mora Villalpando who has spearheaded the fight against the North West Detention Centre near Tacoma in the US was threatened by deportation in 2018. She won her battle thanks to an international protest.
Read MoreSupporting Prisoners: Dallas 6
By Payday men’s network
In 2010, six African American prisoners at SCI Dallas staged a peaceful protest to blow the whistle on the torture inflicted by the guards on inmates of all races. For their stand, they were viciously beaten and charged with riot.
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