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Phil Wilayto
Crisis & Cover-up at Red Onion Super-Max
27 Nov 2024
Red Onion Prison in Virginia has the same history of racism, brutal violence, and inhumane conditions that characterize the entire mass incarceration system. But recently men held there in solitary…
Reuven Blau
Blacks and Hispanics Seeking Parole Face Widening Racial Disparity, Report Finds
20 Nov 2024
After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality. It didn’t help.
Orisanmi Burton
An open letter to prison officials on the censorship of Tip of the Spear
09 Oct 2024
Orisanmi Birton's groundbreaking book, Tip of the Spear, has been listed as contraband in prisons across the country, not only preventing incarcerated people from accessing the book but punishing…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REPORT: “The People Who Were Left to Die:” Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Katrina, ACLU, 2006
28 Aug 2024
Remembering the terrible plight of the incarcerated during Hurricane Katrina.
Ujima People’s Progress Party
Ujima People’s Progress Party Statement on Governor Wes Moore’s Marijuana Conviction Pardons
26 Jun 2024
Maryland Governor Wes Moore recently issued pardons for over 175,000 people in a show of "progress" in criminal justice reform. But these pardons barely scratch the surface of the destruction of…
Center for Constitutional Rights
Imprisoned Workers Bring State Lawsuit to Abolish Involuntary Servitude in Alabama’s Prisons
08 May 2024
On International Workers’ Day, the suit challenges the constitutionality of government actions to punish resistance to forced labor among the majority-Black prison population.
Kwanetta Harris
Boiling on the Inside
17 Apr 2024
Incarcerated People in Texas Weather Extreme Heat in non-Air Conditioned Prisons.