prisoners’ rights
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Features
In memoriam: Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald lives on!
Feature image: Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald. Photo: Freedom4chip.org. Used with permission. After 51 long years persisting in the corrupt California prison…
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Analysis
Keep up the fight for Mumia: ‘No’ to COVID medical neglect!
World renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has contracted COVID-19 in the unsanitary conditions of Pennsylvania’s prison system. People around the…
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Militant Journalism
Angola inmates on hunger strike against unlawful extension of solitary confinement
"The reason [for the strike is]...EVERYONE over here is between one month to six months past their initial disciplinary detention,"…
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Militant Journalism
Interview: Formerly incarcerated organizer on Feb. 6 St. Louis jail protest
On February 10, Liberation News interviewed Ronnie Amiyn, an organizer with EXPO (Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing) St. Louis about the organization,…
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Analysis
$3 billion to spare? Alabama’s governor spends on prisons
Alabama is making one of the largest public expenditures in the state’s history—on building new prisons. Governor Ivey should put…
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Features
Letter from an inmate: St Louis prisoners protest COVID violations, inhumane conditions
Early in the morning of February 6, inmates at the St. Louis City Justice Center protested for seven hours over…
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Militant Journalism
South Carolina prison denies medication to incarcerated women
Being incarcerated greatly increases the risk of contracting COVID-19. In fact, prisoners are 550% more likely to contract the virus…
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Analysis
Julian Assange wins victory as extradition denied
The U.S. government has pursued Assange since at least 2012, for his work exposing hundreds of thousands of U.S. military…
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Analysis
Texas prisons negligent in COVID-19 spread
In Texas prisons, the class nature of COVID-19 spread is being exposed as infection rates surge.
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Militant Journalism
‘Say Their Names’ event highlights struggle against Jim Crow juries
On Dec. 2, The Promise of Justice Initiative in New Orleans held a livestream event honoring those who have been…
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