Prisons
COVID-19 pandemic sweeps California prisons, San Quentin hit hardest
July 10, 2020The 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.
Read morePrison and police abolition: Re-imagining public safety and liberation
June 30, 2020Because capitalism is built on racism, anti-racist struggles are fundamental to its undoing.
Read moreFrom ‘Free Angela Davis’ to #NoNewJailsDC: Organizing against incarceration across generations
May 22, 2020The 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.
Read moreCrime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic
May 12, 2020As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.
Read moreImmigrant detainee hunger strikes spread amid COVID-19 danger
April 23, 2020Despite mounting pressure in the prisons and from courts and public protests, ICE has mostly sat on its hands.
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