Prisons
Philadelphians to vote on Prison Oversight Committee
April 28, 2025Many see an oversight committee as a step for Philadelphians and working-class people across the country to intervene in the criminal justice system and create more effective rehabilitation.
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Penal colonies through history
April 18, 2025The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The 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.
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Free Alabama Movement fights to abolish prison slavery
June 17, 2024Abolition activists rally at the prison gates to end corporate profiteering from inmate labor.
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Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
January 31, 2024A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
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