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For many years, Lois Ahrens has been pushing to change the nation’s prison system. The Northampton activist, who heads the Real Cost of Prisons Project, has worked with fellow activists, artists, researchers and incarcerated people to try to end...
Year, i don't like this tax bracket, i'm going to look at this -- hey, i'm a republican. oh, you are a republican? your blackness is gone and your new nickname is uncle tom. because you can't succeed under their plan. you need us. we have to treat you like children, and bait you and tell you we are going to do this and this and then when you can't succeed it's not their fault, i mean, you are black, did you have a father? the answer -- you laugh, but that -- they say that with a straight face, but don't worry, we're going to get you one welfare we will get you some kind of other things you can...
Inmates in North Carolina prisons no longer receive actual letters penned by friends and loved ones. Starting this week, they receive copies of those letters. It’s a change state prison officials say they made to help reduce the amount of drugs entering facilities.
Second volume of the Communist Interventions series, collecting debates between Black revolutionaries in the US.
Letters of life from slow death row Letters of life from slow death row February 15, 2021 Inside prison, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El was a jazz musician, writing music and organizing in-prison shows in addition to his work helping fellow prisoners access quality education. A review of ‘Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row’ by Tiyo Attallah Salah-El by David Gilbert This inspiring book consists of a selection of 92 of the 568 letters prisoner Tiyo Attallah Salah-El sent out to Paul Alan Smith over the course of 14 years – just one of Tiyo’s richly engaging corresp...