Prisons and Prisoners – Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Statewide Network Rallies Hundreds for Prison Justice in Virginia

February 6, 2019 UNAC Editor Prisons and Prisoners, Protest, Rights of Opressed Peoples

by Phil Wilayto, The Virginia Defender, January 2019 Braving temperatures just above freezing and dire forecasts of a life-threatening winter storm, more than 200 people rallied Jan. 12 at the Virginia State Capitol to demand justice for the state’s prisoners and changes in its criminal justice system. It was the second year in a row that the prisoner-led Virginia Prison[…]

Demanding an End to Modern Day Slavery

September 4, 2018 UNAC Editor Prisons and Prisoners, Protest, Racism

At root, striking prisoners demand they be treated as human beings; the rest of their demands flow logically from recognition of their humanity. Demanding an End to Modern Day Slavery, Prisoners Launch Multi-Day Nationwide Strike by Jessica Corbett, originally published on Common Dreams “For some of us it’s as if we are already dead.” In what could become the largest[…]

National Prison Strike Enters Week Two

September 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Prisons and Prisoners, Protest

by Terri Kay, originally published on Workers World, August 28, 2018 Prisoners across the country are striking in response to an April 15 prison-guard-incited riot at Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Bishopville, S.C. Seven prisoners were killed in what was the deadliest prison riot in 25 years. A network of self-taught legal scholars called Jailhouse Lawyers Speak issued[…]

Prison Strike 2018

August 31, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Prisons and Prisoners

by Margaret Kimberley, originally posted on Black Agenda Report, August 29, 2018 Inmates in states across the nation are on strike against the world’s largest and most racist prison system. Hopefully, they won’[t be betrayed by quisling civil rights misleaders, as in 2010. “The prison strike is a means of bringing attention to a system that is rotten and must[…]