News
- New word of protest action within the prisons continues to reach us almost every day as the National Prison Strike enters its third and final week.We expect to continue getting reports from inside in the coming months as lockdowns and communication restrictions ease.
KS Prison Transfers Used to Silence Dissent
In the late hours of Sunday, May 20th, Kansas Department of Corrections officials sent a special operations team, known in Kansas prisons as the "black suits," to the prison cell of Eric Sims, imprisoned in El Dorado Correctional Facility. They placed him in handcuffs and escorted him to a holding cell in another part of the institution, along with all his property.
Under lock and key: I was thrown in solitary and punished for following the warden's orders
A new article from Jason Walker giving further insight into the Texas prison system's campaign of retaliation against whistleblowers and organizers. This article is a sequel to his previous piece on extreme heat and censorship.
A Labor Day Call to Action
This is a call to establish encampments and coordinate direct actions surrounding the Labor Day weekend at the site of prison labor camps. Inspired by the recent wave of #AbolishICE organizing, prison abolitionists and labor activists have joined forces to call for an escalation of the movement to defend public service unions, stop prison slave labor, and end mass incarceration. PDF VERSION
Strike Statement to the Press; August 28, 2018
This is a growing movement and the Nationwide Prison Strike of 2018 is an unparalleled success for prisoner organizing in the modern era. However, it is important that in recognizing that success that we not lose sight of the demands that prisoners have laid out.
Comrade Malik speaks from inside the South Texas Gulag – McConnell Unit Ad-Seg
Revolutionary Greetings Comrades! Today is August 26th, 2018. I'm holding on, not sure if my pleas for help are making their way out. Things keep on getting progressively worse here.
Letter of Support for the 2018 Prison Strike from Termite Collective in Canada
August 21, 2018
To who it may concern,
Strike Statement to the Press; August 22, 2018
Statement regarding the ongoing Nationwide Prison Strike
issued August 22, 2018, Day 2 of the strike.Issued by the Prison Strike Media Team
Amani Sawari
official outside media representative of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
prisonstrikemedia@gmail.comComrade Malik speaks out on nationwide program of political repression against prison organizers
Comrade Malik exposes nationwide political repression program
by Keith 'Malik' Washington, Deputy Chairman, New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter)
Solidarity rally with nationwide prison strike in Milwaukee
Where: 10th and stateWhat: rally, chanting, speeches, noise demonstrationWhen: 5:30PM Wednesday August 22nd