Mississippi prisoners are in rebellion against brutal, toxic conditions. Join the struggle. [Image shows garbage and roaches inside a pipe chase with a missing door at Parchman prison. Source: Mississippi State Department of Health] From Mother Jones: Mississippi prisons are in crisis. On Tuesday, a congressman called for a federal investigation after at least five…
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Kinetik Justice Hunger Strike Day 7
The Alabama Department of Corrections is once again targeting and retaliating against our comrade Robert Earl Council (AKA Kinetik Justice) for exposing the and corruption, extortion, and officer on inmate abuse at Limestone Correctional Facility. We ask that you take a moment out of your day to support one of the founders of the Free…
Comrade Malik: Environmental Disasters In Texas are not a Hoax!
In the early morning hours of November 27th, 2019 there was a huge explosion at a chemical plant located in Port Natchez, Texas just a few miles from USP Beaumont where I am currently housed. The plant which is operated by TPC Group Sustained a large amount of structural damage and approximately four people were…
BREAKING: Activists Lock Down GEO Group HQ in Boca Raton, Florida!
BREAKING: Activists Lock Down GEO Group HQ in Boca Raton, Florida! HELP SUPPORT THE BAIL FUND: https://www.everribbon.com/ribbon/view/74891?fbclid=IwAR3H8fFYRkQTnuoO52qCnp-i7qi1zcxF63t4-sdLA7mHGn_0kTQSLiF1yb8 BOCA RATON, FL – Florida based for-profit prison company, GEO Group is again the center of controversy as human rights activists lock down outside their Boca Raton headquarters early Tuesday morning. Activists from a myriad of organizational backgrounds…
BREAKING: Whistleblower in FDOC Proves Martin CI is Blocking Constitutional Rights of Prisoners
Entering Day 2 of the Phone Zap for Martin CI (Keep Calling!) a whistleblower within FDOC has disproved the bullshit response we received from Martin Correctional yesterday claiming they are not discriminating against certain prisoners and denying them access to the legal computer. Mr. John Holtz, the Assistant Warden of “Programs” at Martin CI, was kind enough…
Phone Zap for Martin CI – Legal Access Being Denied!
UPDATES: November, 21st- On Day 2 of the Martin CI Phone Zap we’ve received a bullshit response from the Assistant Warden claiming they aren’t broadly blocking people’s access to legal research computers, And we have a Whistleblower proving he’s lying. Read the full report here: https://fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com/2019/11/21/breaking-whistleblower-in-fdoc-proves-martin-ci-is-blocking-constitutional-rights-of-prisoners/ Martin Correctional Institution in Florida is abusing their authority and…
Hunger Strike Day 11: Support Kinetik Justice !
Our Comrade Kinetik Justice is still at Limestone Correctional Facility, one of the most repressive prisons in Alabama. Kinetik was sent to solitary confinement after drugs were planted in his cell, and has been on a hunger strike since October 29th 2019. He is currently housed in the infirmary at Limestone CF, (the same infirmary where…
Anti-Prison Protesters Face Jail Time for Holding the DOJ Accountable
Update: 12:00 EST: All charges have been dropped! Anti-Prison Protesters Face Jail Time for Holding the DOJ Accountable For media inquiries, please contact: Katie Nolan 410-960-4979 NOVEMBER 7, 2019 — Five people are in court today after arrests stemming from an October 1, 2019 protest outside of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), when dozens…
PHONE ZAP FOR COMRADE MALIK
Comrade Keith Malik Washington, long time collaborator with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons and the SF Bay View urgently needs our support! Comrade Malik is currently being held in solitary confinement after being attacked at USP Beaumont. Other prisoners had previously warned that he was in danger at Beaumont and it is clear that…
Report Back: IWOC-NYC Delivers South Carolina Prisoner’s Demands to United Nations
A Report Back from IWOC-NYC: Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee- New York City. October 23rd, 2019. United Nations Headquarters, New York City. In the face of long standing and severe abuses, our incarcerated comrades in South Carolina wrote a letter asking for humanitarian intervention to the United Nations, and asked for outside support in delivering it….
Activists Across the World Deliver South Carolina Prisoner’s Demands to United Nations
Activists Across the World Deliver South Carolina Prisoner’s Demands to United Nations [Organizers in Washington D.C. with D.C. Abolition Coalition and the D.C. Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee deliver the demands of South Carolina Prisoners to the local United Nations Office.]
Abolition Means Decolonization: Support Incarcerated Native Activists on Indigenous People’s Day
On Turtle Island every day should be Indigenous People’s day. Each day we need to honor the land and remember that the colonial logic of extraction is the same logic that perpetuates the prison industrial slave complex. As companies and the government extract the vital resources our communities need for life they also extract Indigenous,…
