Posts Tagged: prisoners’ rights
Community rallies for refugees outside private prison in Otay Mesa
Jun 13, 2018
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While the demonstration was occurring, Liberation News saw company prison cars transport at least one youth in handcuffs without any family.
SC rally outside Lee County prison calls for end to prison slavery
May 28, 2018
Those on the outside can only provide meaningful support to the prisoners’ struggles if they dare to be as persistent and unwavering as the prisoner...
Kansas prisoners on hunger strike against CCA’s inhumane conditions
May 08, 2018
Inmates in Leavenworth, Kansas, started a hunger strike on April 30 to protest what they describe as inhumane conditions, especially the inedible food...
Transwoman prisoner wins historic suit against NY prison complex
May 01, 2018
The disproportionate imprisonment of transwomen is a form of class war waged by those in power against some of the most marginalized and vulnerable ...
Dozens rally at San José City Jail in support of hunger strikers
Apr 26, 2018
Close to 100 family members and community supporters gathered outside the main jail in San José, Calif., April 23.
South Florida shows solidarity with striking prisoners
Jan 17, 2018
As Operation PUSH continues, we must keep our eyes on the prisoners’ struggle for justice and lend our full support as they face brutal repression f...
Florida prisoners work stoppage to demand better conditions on MLK Day
Jan 15, 2018
On a daily basis, the Florida Department of Corrections commits human rights violations against tens of thousands of people incarcerated in its 50 pri...
Ex-inmate: ‘We carried on the work of the Angola 3’
Oct 30, 2017
Liberation News interviews a former prisoner in Baton Rouge.
For-profit immigration prison pays detained people $1 a day
Sep 28, 2017
Detained immigrants at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma face horrible conditions.
Boston to DC: Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March!
Aug 26, 2017
On August 19, hundreds people from around the United States, including organizers and former prisoners, gathered in Washington D.C. to take part in th...
New Book
Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation
(Liberation Media, 2017)
Tracing the historical evolution of a movement that has thoroughly transformed society, and is in need of militant revival today.