Prisoner Injustice

Violence and injustice inflicted by the state, such as medical neglect, political repression and censorship.

Jason Walker attacked by prison clansmen for reporting their brutality

This story first appeared in the San Francisco Bay View.

Women declare hunger strike in UK immigration prison

Over 40 women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre have gone on hunger strike protesting against a charter flight tonight that will take traumatised women back to Nigeria.

The Anatomy of Abusive Prison Guards

Note: As of late October, Jason Walker has been moved to the Ellis Unit.

Comrade Malik Speaks: I am nearly at my breaking point! Please Intervene!

Prison-assisted drug overdoses: TDCJ is amongst many state and federal prisons affected by the deadly K2 epidemic

In this article, Jason Walker exposes the full deadly cost of the K2 epidemic, and staff complicity in smuggling the drug into prisons. Jason is facing continuing retaliation and harassment for his writing and organizing, please see here for ways that you can put pressure on the prison administration to protect him: https://itsgoingdown.org/urgent-call-to-action-defend-jason-walker-from-staff-harassment/

Voices From Beyond Wisconsin Prison Gates Issue 5, Summer 2018

Resource Types: Publication

This is a newsletter written by inmates, for inmates, to share experiences, and connect with one another. It is edited and printed by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) of the Milwaukee branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Topics: Prisoner Injustice, Prisoner Resistance, Theory and Strategy

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.