prisoner rights – People's World

Alabama lied: Prisoners face deadly retaliation for their strike

October 7, 2022 By Keri Blakinger

The strike started Sept. 26 after thousands of prisoners refused to leave their dorms and cell blocks for work in mess halls, factories and trash crews.

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.

Abolition Writing: A People’s World workshop on writing to end mass incarceration

September 13, 2021 By People’s World

September 17, 2021 - 7pm ET

Radical perspectives on prison abolition: Town Hall set for June 12

June 9, 2021 By Special to People’s World

Save the date: June 12 at 3pm. Registration link in the article.

No right to read: Profiteering corporations creep into prison libraries

December 22, 2020 By Kaitlin Peterson

Exclusive-access contracts are leaving incarcerated persons and their families no choice but to pay exorbitant private company fees to access books and communicate with one another.