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Comrade Z Update on Conditions at TDCJ

RE: Wobbly IWOC report, the TDCJ decided to lie about my time on the plantation slaving as an administrative segregation inmate, so I have seen that this institution wants the truth to come out, so it's my time to share with the community, you are being fooled by the biggest liars in Texas, where is the taxpayer funding going? Why are these red brick facilities always forcing inmates to drink the sewage water? Then forced to slave-making furniture for judges and courthouses? Why are the courts not giving inmates play in their lawsuits? Could it be that TDCJ has bought favor with USDC by gifting them with slave-made furniture? How is the second-in-command in TDCJ, on the board of governors with ACA , yet still dropping the ball during Hurricane Beryl?

Shut 'Em Down 2024 Abolition Demonstrations

Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, on behalf of other inside collectives, announces the 2024 SHUT ‘EM DOWN Abolition Demonstrations dedicated to advocating to end legalized slavery and dismantling the prison industrial slave complex (abolition). Together, we are continuing to advance the movement for abolition.

Protect and Free Prisoners During COVID-19

As the threat to health and safety of COVID-19 grows, local IWOC crews have been mobilizing with all hands on deck to meet the challenges in local areas.

Minnesota: Stop Incarcerating People for Technical Violations

On July 18, the first prison guard in Minnesota's history was killed, on top of recent violence in Oak Park Heights and Stillwater prisons. Yet all the DOC does is ask for more money on top of their 1.2 billion dollar budget. We need a new approach to change in Minnesota’s prisons. Stop putting money into a violent institution that is not correcting anyone. Free our people, and reinvest savings into reentry and rehabilitation.

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Wobblies file Class Action Lawsuit against Texas Board of Criminal Justice and Texas Department of Criminal Justice in 2022

Industrial Workers of the World- "IWOC-IUB 613 #1" members are marching forward together. As of 2/7/22, the "Texas Board of Criminal Justice"-Chairman- Patrick O'Daniel/ Texas Department of Minimal Justice Directors Bobby Lumpkin, Bryan Collier, State Counsel for Offenders-Guistina Persich, and MSPC Tammy Shelby are officially on the civil rights lawsuit. One class-action lawsuit coming up! Yes! I have entered the IWOC into the courts in Texas to challenge the real adversary.

In Loving Memory of Revolutionary Change Seeker Rebecca Hensley-

Resistance Has Become My Ethical Obligation: Words of Reflection on the International Day In Support of Victims of Torture

Resistance Has Become My Ethical Obligation

Tell KS Lawmakers to Commute "Old Law" Sentences

After Oklahoma's historic commutations on November 1, 2019 - 400 inmates approved to be released - the focus has turned to Kansas. With overcrowding - and medical neglect - so bad it has caused riots, death, and out-of-state transfers of inmates, Kansas is desperate for solutions. The release of non-violent offenders is now gaining bi-partisan support.

Lucasville Amnesty

The Lucasville Uprising was a rebellion against oppressive and racist policies at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, OH. Nine inmates and one guard died during the uprising in April of 1993. Today, many people are serving time or condemned to death by the state of Ohio in relation to the uprising. We demand amnesty for all of these inmates. The conditions at SOCF were (and still are) intolerable and unconscionable.

Restore Communication Access to Imam Hasan

In late July of 2018 Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan was cut off from phone and email access and had most of his property confiscated and his cell locked down in a clear move to silence his advocacy for prisoners leading up to the nationwide prison strike. Hasan is an IWOC member who has been held in solitary confinement on death row since 1993 on false charges deriving from the Lucasville Uprising.

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee

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