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.
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.
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.
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.
Resistance Has Become My Ethical Obligation
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.
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.
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.
Rebels incarcerated in prisons across the nation declared a nationwide strike in response to the riot in Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in South Carolina. Actions across the country demanded humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the end of modern day slavery.
