mass incarceration

Prisoners and the formerly incarcerated demand the right to vote

October 14, 2020 By Waleed Ahmad

Disenfranchisement of voters is a part of our country’s racist history and will take a lot of work to be dismantled.

Florida campaign underway to pay ‘poll taxes’ for the formerly incarcerated

September 24, 2020 By John Bachtell

Without Florida, Trump's re-election hopes are doomed. That's why GOP officials there are blocking the votes of as many people as possible.

From ‘Free Angela Davis’ to #NoNewJailsDC: Organizing against incarceration across generations

May 22, 2020 By Jamal Rich

The event featured elders from the Communist Party USA who were involved in the Committee to Free Angela Davis and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

Black youth stage Emancipation Day protest for D.C. inmates amid COVID-19 crisis

April 20, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Emancipation Day protests have a new meaning in the age of COVID-19.

More rehabilitation, less incarceration: How about votes for inmates?

October 16, 2019 By Jesse Jackson

They know better than most that while there are some truly violent people that deserve incarceration, the vast majority need a hand up, not another shackle of more debt, a bad record, a bleaker future.