Prisoners
Kevan Thakrar in isolation at Whitemoor HMP
By Anti-Carceral Solidarity
Kevan Thakrar has been placed in solitary confinement. He has no property, his cell doesnt even a toilet seat. Take action against the Islamophobic violence Kevan is being subjected to now!!!
Read MoreLawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
By Kim Kelly, In These Times
Ten plaintiffs in a landmark class-action lawsuit are challenging what they and their supporters describe as an unconstitutional forced labor scheme in Alabama’s state prisons. Incarcerated workers save prisons $9+ billion a year in operational costs and earn them $2+ billion in sales of goods and services, while the prisoners make pennies per hour.
Read MoreI Made 13 Cents an Hour as a Prison Janitor. Here’s Why I Donated My Wages to Gaza Relief
By Hamzah Jihad Furqaani as told to Aala Abdullahi, The Marshall Project
It’s a common misconception that once someone enters jail or prison, they lose their interest in the outside world… For me, at age 56, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Read MoreMore than 10 days of hunger strike at a detention center for migrants in the US
By Carlos Soledad, El Salto
229 immigrants detained inside the Northwest Detention Centre in Tacoma, Washington, continue their hunger strike in response to the death of Trinidadian Charles Leo Daniel for unknown reasons.
Read MoreSupport Hunger Strike at the North West Detention Centre, Tacoma, US
By Global Women Against Deportations & Payday
Please support the hunger strike inside and outside the detention centre, protesting the death of Mr Charles Leo Daniel, in solitary for almost 4 years, and against detention conditions.
Read MoreHelp! Leonard Peltier needs medical transfer
By Leonard Peltier Official Ad Hoc Committee
Imprisoned Indigenous elder Leonard Peltier is in urgent need of medical care. Peltier was falsely convicted and imprisoned and has been kept there as revenge for his community daring to resist. He has withstood decades of torture in US prisons, taking a terrible toll on him physically.
Read MoreSupport Hunger Strikers & Rashid Johnson at Red Onion State Prison, USA
By Oakland Abolition & Solidarity
Since December 26, 2023, up to 30 prisoners in solitary confinement at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison have been on hunger strike to protest the continued use of torturous long-term solitary confinement.
Read MoreVictory for Keith Lamar – his execution moved to January 2027
By Keith Lamar on death row
The governor has issued a reprieve, meaning that the projected execution date has been moved to January 13th, 2027. Let’s keep moving forward everybody. Let’s keep demanding justice.
Read MoreGathered to Mark Anniversary of Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Advocates Vow to End Solitary Confinement in California
By Yen-Tung Lin and Luke Baltay – solitarywatch.org
On July 8 and 9 2023, solitary survivors, their families, activists, and scholars gathered to mark the tenth anniversary of the 2013 hunger strike in the Pelican Bay State Prison, which became the largest prison hunger strike ever held in the United States.
Read MoreVictory – Kevan Thakrar to be allowed to mix with another inmate
By Supporters of Kevan Thakrar
Kevan Thakrar was told by the prison that he would be allow to mix with one other inmate, thus breaking his ongoing segregation. An important victory. Read Kevan’s supporters’ press release.
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