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Call-in against abuses at McCormick Correctional, South Carolina
Inmates at McCormick Correctional Facility in South Carolina, supported by Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, are asking for outside supporters to help them in challenging unbearable conditions there.
Prisoner Lives Matter Too - But Not In Texas!
Prisoner Lives Matter Too – But Not In Texas!
By Keith “Malik” Washington
“To cooperate passively with an unjust system makes the oppressed as evil as the oppressor.” - Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Republished from Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
San Jose A19 report-back
Republished, with permission, from Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
Lynching culture: Florida officials are experts at killing prisoners by natural causes
On Aug. 24, guards here at Florida State Prison (FSP) donned special “formal” uniforms of black pants, dark grey shirts and black neckties – their usual uniform consists of black pants, a light grey shirt and no necktie. The special occasion?
They were executing a man who was sentenced to die for a double homicide in 1987.
Action needed to fight retaliation at the Eastham Unit!
Letters needed in support of Herman Bell, elderly political prisoner beaten by guards
A call from the NYC Jericho Movement and Herman Bell's support crew:
Dear Friends,
Shaka Shakur charged with attacking guard at Wabash Valley, Indiana: Calls needed now!
On Aug. 31, Shaka Shakur, political prisoner and inmate of Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, was involved in an altercation with two correctional officers. Jon Sexton, 71, was taken to the hospital following the incident when Shakur allegedly slipped his restraints and attacked Sexton with a sharpened piece of plastic.
US prisons practice the same slavery and racism celebrated by Confederate monuments
On Aug. 11, white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, against the removal of the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. In the wake of that rally, which turned deadly when a rally-goer plowed his car into a group of counter-demonstrators, killing one and injuring 19 others, calls across Amerika to remove Confederate monuments have intensified.
