Prisons and Prisoners

Tren de Aragua: Reality and Propaganda

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Immigrants, Prisons and Prisoners, Propaganda, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

By Eligio Rojas, published on the Orinoco Tribune, March 21, 2025 “Cosmic dust.” This is how President Nicolás Maduro described the defunct Tren de Aragua, the criminal gang whose name echoes across Latin America and beyond as if it was an organization with a central command, camps, and an arsenal. “The Tren de Aragua is cosmic dust in Venezuela; it[…]

Protest Hits Another State-Sanctioned Lynching in New York

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, The War at Home

by special to Workers World, published Editor’s Note: Speaking of ‘impunity’, the 2 prisons where these murders occur are in the same town, and likely draw on the same community of guards. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul responded firing a large number of guards for participating in a strike to create more safety and better conditions for both guards[…]

US Sends Dozens of Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo as Relatives Plead Innocence

February 28, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Migrants and Refugees, Prisons and Prisoners

by Ricardo Vaz, published on Venezuelanalysis, February 15, 2025 Caracas, February 15, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The United States government has sent more than 100 Venezuelans to a US naval base with a history of human rights abuses in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to reports, the transfers began earlier this month as part of the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.[…]

Sednaya: Investigating Syria’s Most Notorious Prison

January 18, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Prisons and Prisoners, Propaganda, Syria

by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, December 24, 2024 This article is an important counter to some of the horrific propaganda spewed by the Western press (and Al Jazeera) since the overthrow of the legitimate Syrian government in a coup perpetrated by the same entities that waged war on Syria for nearly a decade from 2011 to 2019,[…]

A call to free Leonard Peltier After 50 Years in Prison

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Lawfare, Native American Genocide, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home

by Phil Pasquini, published on Countercurrents, September 14, 2023 On Leonard Peltier’s 79th birthday, September 12 his family members along with hundreds of Native American activists and numerous supporters demonstrated at the White House calling on President Biden to grant him clemency so that he will not die in prison. Peltier, who was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI[…]

Inside the High-Security “Black Site” Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, Uncategorized

by Silja J. A. Talvi, published on Truthout, September 28, 2023 nbeknownst to most protesters who gathered at the White House on the occasion of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier’s 79th birthday, Peltier wasn’t able to celebrate, much less receive reports on how the well-attended event was progressing. That’s because Peltier, who is now spending his 48th year in[…]

Ana Belén Montes, Exemplary Hero, Defender Of Cuba, Will be Freed

January 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Imperial Wars, Political Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Resistance

by Stansfield Smith, published on Chicago Alba Solidarity, January 5, 2023 On January 8, 2023 the US has to release one of its many political prisoners, most being fighters against its repression of Third World peoples. Ana Belén Montes, heroic defender of Cuba’s sovereignty, will be freed after over 21 years in a federal military prison. She was a top[…]

Black Market in Broad Daylight

December 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Corporatism, Corruption, Prisons and Prisoners, War on the Poor

by Lauren Smith, published on Covert Action Magazine, December 6, 2022 [This article is the second part of a series on human rights abuse by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Miami Federal Detention Center (Miami FDC). Part One was on its deadly lack of health care services. Part Two is about its torturous and corrupt food[…]

Mumia’s Appeal Dismissed; The “Mumia Rule” Still in Force in the Bosses’ Courts

October 28, 2022 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism

by Noelle Hanrahan, published on Socialist Action, October 27, 2022 Dear Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and social justice, Here’s an excellent article by Prison Radio’s Noelle Hanrahan on yesterday’s, October 26, racist court ruling in Philadelphia that effectively, and once again, denied innocent and racist police frame-up victim and political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, justice and a new trial. Hanrahan recounts the[…]

Reproductive Justice and the U.S. Carceral System

July 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Prisons and Prisoners, Women

by Marie Kelly, published on Workers World, July 8, 2022 The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had dramatic and devastating consequences for anyone who can get pregnant but is trapped in the U.S. carceral system. Number of incarcerated women accelerating According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the[…]