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Supreme Court rules kids can be thrown away By Gloria Rubac posted on May 3, 2021 The Supreme Court of the United States ruled April 22 that children under 18 years of age–the vast majority of whom are poor and of color–can be incarcerated in prison for the rest of their lives with no possibility of release from behind the razor wire. Since 2005, when SCOTUS ruled in Roper v. Simmons that juveniles could not be sentenced to death, the highest court has been limiting harsher penalties for juveniles. Their rulings accepted that, because children’s minds are still developing, they are le...

‘I have rights too’ By Miley Selena Fletcher The following letter is from a transgender incarcerated worker at SCI Forest in Pennsylvania. When I write for Workers World about the wrongs going on here and the unprofessional abuse of authority by correctional officers or staff, I am called down to a security office. I am told: “We’re only concerned about your safety.” Or they will say, “Why don’t you write us first?” even when I have written them first. When I write them, nothing is ever done — or the correctional officer or staff alike are still around you, so the individua...

Lavender and Red solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal!  From the LGBTQ+ Caucus of Workers World Party We, the LGBTQ+ Caucus of Workers World Party, are outraged, disgusted and alarmed by the continued attempts to silence and kill Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black revolutionary political prisoner who has been inside the imprisoned nation for almost 40 years — first railroaded into a death sentence and then, because of the movement rising up to defend him, spared an execution but given a life sentence. The capitalist imperialist state has not given up their attempts to kill Mumia; in fact, they have doub...

U.S. role in Ecuador prison uprisings By Mirinda Crissman posted on April 23, 2021 “In places where inequality is the deepest, the use of prison and punishment is the greatest.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore) Prisons do not keep people safe from violence; in fact, these institutions perpetuate violence themselves and further entrench poverty. They are tools used by those who hoard mass amounts of wealth to undercut wages and pit workers against one another. Tear gas rises from parts of Turi jail where a rebellion broke out in Cuenca, Ecuador, Feb. 23. Once people are labeled “criminal,” “t...

‘The fire has started!’ in Alabama — Amazon, mine workers April 18 — Miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Ala., struck April 1 and are still picketing as of this writing. On April 9 they voted 1,006 to 45 to reject a contract that would have restored only $1.50 of a $6-an-hour pay cut workers took in 2016 — to pull the company out of bankruptcy. The rejected contract would have continued brutal disciplinary and firing policies and dangerous working conditions. (See Workers World, “After BAmazon, Alabama mine workers go out on strike,” April 2) On strike in Brookwood, Ala., ...