Political Prisoners

Do workers have a right to know the truth? Free Chelsea Manning now!

March 15, 2019 Prisoners Solidarity Committee

U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton in Alexandria, Va., expressed the government’s contempt for every woman, every trans person and every worker when he sent heroic military whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail on International Women’s […]

Kevin Cooper, an appeal for freedom and prison abolition

March 2, 2019 M. Odom

To very little fanfare, in December 2018, new DNA testing was ordered for California death row inmate Kevin Cooper, a Black man accused of killing four white people. For over 30 years, Cooper has […]

Vaughn prisoners sue over Delaware abuse

February 10, 2019 Lev Koufax, Prisoners Solidarity Committee

Inmates at the Vaughn Correctional Facility, the largest prison in Delaware, have filed a lawsuit against state corrections officials for “physically, mentally and emotionally” abusing prisoners. The lawsuit was filed in January. “The higher ranking […]

Prisoner writes on inspiration from Mumia

February 1, 2019 James F. Young III

Comrades, My political voyage inside these prison walls is inspired by many revolutionaries, one of whom is Mumia Abu-Jamal. All of the trials Mumia has been through, from the time he was on the street […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s fight for freedom

January 14, 2019 Gloria Verdieu

Rooted in Black liberation struggle “Philadelphia is the city that imprisons the majority of Black and Brown youth. It is the city that has also imprisoned and attempted to silence the most important political prisoner […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks to New York meeting

January 14, 2019 Stephen Millies

New York — More than a hundred people came to the People’s Forum in Midtown Manhattan on Jan. 12 to hear the latest developments in the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. On the meeting’s stage were boxes […]

Hundreds march in Philadelphia to support Mumia Abu-Jamal

January 6, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha

“Brick by brick! Wall by wall! We’re gonna free Mumia Abu-Jamal!” hundreds of people chanted as they marched through a driving winter rainstorm in Philadelphia on Jan. 5. They came to stand in solidarity with […]

Protest for Mumia in Philadelphia on Jan. 5

January 3, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha

Be in Philadelphia Krasner, don’t stand in the way of justice for Mumia! Saturday, January 5, 2019 Rally from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at District Attorney Larry Krasner’s Office, 3 Penn. Sq. Across from […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal case reopened as court ruling admits bias

December 30, 2018 Lallan Schoenstein

World famous political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal won an opportunity to reopen his case when a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge ruled on Dec. 27 that his appeal can be reargued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. […]

Political prisoner profile: Leonard Peltier

December 21, 2018 Mary Lou Finley

On Feb. 6, 2019, Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier will mark the beginning of his 44th year in prison. Now 74, Peltier is Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) and Lakota from the Turtle Mountain Reservation and was framed […]