DEFEND PRISONERS
Payday continues to support many collective and individual campaigns by prisoners. We have joined with Legal Action for Women (LAW) and other organisations (run overwhelmingly by women) to oppose the death penalty, miscarriages of justice (including Joint Enterprise), prison conditions, prisoners' economic exploitation and slavery and above all the cruel and inhumane use of solitary confinement - a policy used to punish rebellious inmates.
Prisoners in the US and UK are disproportionately people of colour coming from poor communities where they have suffered racism and discrimination even before those of us who are not white face the racism of the criminal justice systems.
It is generally recognized that the vast majority of women in prison have committed crimes of poverty often in an effort to feed their children. Mothers in prison face the extra excruciating punishment of separation from their kids who they have spent their lives protecting.
And women – partners, mothers, sisters, daughters of prisoners – have been the most resolute campaigners against prison injustices, always supporting their loved ones inside. Whenever we could, we have campaigned internationally, opposing the prison systems in the US, the UK and elsewhere.
With organisations in Global Women Against Deportations, we have campaigned to close immigration detention centres everywhere.
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.
By Queer Strike & Payday
Discrimination against trans people make them at risk of economic insecurity. The violence they suffer in prisons is a continuation of trans people’s civilian life.
By Payday men’s network
On 8 July 2013, 30,000 prisoners across California stopped eating and went on work strike to end long-term solitary confinement… and won two years later!
By Payday men’s network
In 2014, Reverend Edward Pinkney, grassroots leader of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) was jailed, accused of altering a recall petition against the Benton Harbor Mayor who was supporting tax evasion.
By Payday men’s network
For decades, we have campaigned to close down immigration detention centres and opposed the unjust and racist imprisonment of people who have committed no crime.
By Eric Gjertsen, Payday men’s network
A speech on Anti-capitalism Behind Bars workshop at the Left Forum.
By Payday men’s network
Troy Davis was executed in 2011 in the US, but became an international cause célèbre against the death penalty.
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