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Compassionate release for Jamie Scott!
Block Report: The Scott Sisters The Block Report interviews Mrs. Rasco, the mother of Jamie and Gladys Scott, two women in Mississippi who were accused of an $11 dollar robbery and given double life...
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Joint report issued on conditions in Haiti’s displaced persons camps
Authors describe urgency of unmet needs, press for better aid distribution This picture was taken in Port au Prince on Jan. 28, but two months later, many Haitians made homeless and destitute by the...
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Ride it ‘til the wheels fall off …
Oakland rallies in solidarity with historic Georgia prisoners’ strike by Malaika Kambon In solidarity with the Georgia prison strikers, student-led protesters in Oakland braved cold, driving, drenching...
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A Pelican Bay hunger striker’s journal, Parts 1 and 2
Richard Wembe Johnson, a prisoner who recently suffered a heart attack due to a blocked artery in his heart, is among the hunger strikers at Pelican Bay. Since the beginning of the strike, he has been...
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Release my mother, son of terminally ill blind prisoner asks Gov. Jerry Brown
Join the press conference sponsored by Families to Amend California Three Strikes (FACTS) on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 11 a.m., in the Governor’s office, 300 South Spring St., downtown Los Angeles, to...
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Condemned to valley fever
by Donald Ray Young Another death sentence, valley fever, combined with the lack of constitutionally adequate medical care, has resulted in 62 known deaths since 2006 within the California prison...
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Corcoran 2011 hunger strike petitioner needs legal help re retaliation,...
by Juan Jaimes My name is Juan Jaimes. I was a petitioner during the Dec. 28, 2011, hunger strike here at Corcoran State Prison. I’m sure you recall after I and the other two petitioners were...
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Menard hunger strikers endure beating, threats by nurses but vow, ‘We will...
The following information is drawn from letters received from prisoners in Administrative Detention at Menard Correctional Center in Menard, Illinois, and compiled on Jan. 25 by Attorney Alice Lynd....
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Amy Buckley in Mississippi prison: I will not give up until I receive the...
by Amy Buckley On July 18, 2014, I was told to pack and was transferred to Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. Since I was not informed as to why I was being transferred, I have...
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Tehachapi SHU is the worst of any SHU, prison or jail I have seen in 23 years
by Aaron Jabari Scott On Aug. 28, 2014, I spoke with the Corcoran State Prison Step Down Program (SDP) facilitator who confirmed I was on the list to be transferred to Tehachapi (California...
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Baltimore ‘shuts it down’ for Freddie Gray
by Christopher Mathias and Ryan J. Reilly Baltimore – Hundreds of people took to the streets here on Saturday to demonstrate against police brutality and call for accountability for the police officers...
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For Mumia, we demand no retaliatory transfer and treatment to cure his...
by Johanna Fernandez I visited Mumia on Sunday, Sept. 6. As you know, after a series of hospitalizations in March and April 2015, Mumia has remained in the prison infirmary. During this time, most of...
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Imprisoned people facing medical neglect and violence: Family members and...
by Dolores Canales, Family Unity Network, and Hannah McFaull, Justice Now Sacramento – On Nov. 11, an imprisoned person at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) faced extreme violence at the hands...
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Your tax dollars make America a nation of 8 million slaves
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington Slavery has not been abolished in the United States of America. We call this the land of the free, but it is presently home to 2 million active slaves and approximately 6...
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Loving school: Eunice Atim of Uganda needs our support to advance to...
Note from Leroy Moore: Poor Magazine taught me that journalism is relationships, starting with “I,” going to “we,” and they go deeper than a story. It’s been almost five years since I met Ronald...
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Behind 12-day statewide Pennsylvania prison lockdown: Control, power, money
by Major Tillery The caption under this photo in a rural Pennsylvania newspaper reads: “Medical personnel at Grove City Medical Center wear hazardous material (haz-mat) suits as part of the cleaning...
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Can gene therapy cure sickle cell anemia?
In the 60 Minutes show on sickle cell, Dr. John Tisdale talks with Jenelle Stephenson, 27, one of only nine people testing gene therapy for sickle cell anemia. She describes the pain of sickle cell as...
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Building a united front inside: Educate, agitate, organize!
For the past six years, prison activist Kwame Shakur has worked with caged comrades around the u.s. to found a platform and political line for the Prison Lives Matter movement, establishing a united...
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