Prison-Industrial Complex

Private prison billionaires gave early to Trump, and now they’re cashing in

November 18, 2024 By Mark Gruenberg

By rounding up thousands of productive workers, cruelly separating families, and filling the concentration camps they run, they will line their pockets with hundreds of millions of additional dollars.

‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity

August 14, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon

The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.

Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, fighter against prison-industrial complex, faces cancer neglect behind bars

September 15, 2022 By Japhy Barrera

He helped organize a prison strike against harsh conditions, now his health is being neglected. Supporters say it’s retaliation.

California’s longest serving death-row prisoner on pain and Native identity

August 1, 2022 By Special to People’s World

As the Monache and Cherokee 63-year-old awaits a new hearing for a 1978 murder he denies committing, Douglas Ray Stankewitz shares the cultural tools and memories he depends on to stay alive.

Arkansas jail uses inmates to test fake COVID cure ivermectin

September 28, 2021 By Holly Dickson And Corene Kendrick

Last month, people detained in a Fayetteville, Arkansas jail became the unwitting subjects of an unsafe experiment—like many incarcerated people before them.