Jake Watkins

Jacob Watkins is vice president of BCTGM local 372A in Indiana and an activist with the Young Communist League and CPUSA in the state.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Jake Watkins

Politics

Indiana inmate fights to reform sentencing and end mass incarceration
June 28, 2022 By Jake Watkins
Bryan Jones was just 25 years old when he was sentenced to 50 years in Indiana’s Department of Corrections. Now he’s an advocate for sentencing reform.
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U.S.

Rather than sell their own blood, Indiana students go on strike
April 27, 2022 By Jake Watkins
Indiana University grad student workers, often driven to extreme measures to stay afloat, went out on strike April 13.
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News

Indiana Communists make ending mass incarceration a key area of work
February 22, 2022 By Jake Watkins
The Communist Party and its youth wing are targeting the nation’s jails for elimination.
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U.S.

Indiana Senate Republicans push racist crime bills
January 18, 2022 By Jake Watkins And Jason Jones
Expanding police power and budgets, targeting crime “hot spots,” and increasing the hardships of workers on electronic monitoring—it’s all to be found in the latest GOP proposals.
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