Prisons

San Quentin vigil says incarceration has become a death sentence

July 27, 2020 By David Bacon

The coronavirus infection spread rapidly through San Quentin. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR], as of the date of the vigil, there were 928 active cases and eleven prisoners had died.

COVID-19 pandemic sweeps California prisons, San Quentin hit hardest

July 10, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

The pandemic has taken its heaviest toll at San Quentin State Prison, where one-third of the 4,000 men have tested positive and at least 6 have died.

Prison and police abolition: Re-imagining public safety and liberation

June 30, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Because capitalism is built on racism, anti-racist struggles are fundamental to its undoing.

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.

Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic

May 12, 2020 By Robin McDowell And Margie Mason

As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.