Clik here to view.
‘You know you’s a nigger,’ says Correctional Officer White
by Roderick McKissick The only information available about this photo is that it was taken at Telfair State Prison in Georgia, one of the prisons where prisoners who participated in the statewide...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Muslim minister labeled a white Dr. King has a powerful voice
by Amina Asadallah “Shawn Whatley and other prisoner activists are being persecuted for leading the largest strike in American history” is the mission statement on the Facebook page called Save Shawn...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Georgia hunger strike enters fifth week
by Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Georgia hunger strikers – Photo: Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report The hunger strike begun on June 11 by nine prisoners at Georgia’s massive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will AB 2530 unshackle childbirth in California?
An interview with Tina Reynolds and Vikki Law by Angola 3 News Women march in Manhattan to protest the shackling of prisoners in labor. The movement to stop this barbaric practice has spread across...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Georgia prisons ‘out of control,’ rights group says, as FBI brutality probe...
by John Rudolf This is Terrance Dean, 31, before his near-fatal beating. He is seen by prison officials as a leader in the historic Dec. 9, 2010, sit-down strike by thousands of Georgia prisons from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video released of Georgia guards beating prisoners with hammer
by Mary Ratcliff At the beginning of this video, you hear a prison guard shouting, “”Get down! Just get down! Get down! Get down!” presumably to the other prisoners. That exclamation is followed by,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Georgia prisoner dies in solitary confinement
by Hamim A.M. Asadallah A prisoner at Georgia’s Special Management Unit Prison in Jackson, Georgia, was found unresponsive in his cell days after he had been engaged in a heated argument with staff....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Georgia prisoners on hunger strike since Feb. 9
by Tamarcus Wright On Feb. 9, 2014, prisoners in the special management unit (SMU) of the Georgia Diagnostic Correctional Prison began another hunger strike to protest conditions. This logo was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Striking Georgia prisoners name names, allege sexual abuse, ongoing threats...
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Not quite a month ago, I wrote that we at Black Agenda Report had received word of a new self-organized hunger strike among prisoners in Georgia’s notorious...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Let’s just shut down’: an interview with Spokesperson Ray of the Free...
by Annabelle Parker Annabelle Parker: How did you come to start the Free Alabama Movement? What was the issue that triggered it? And were you all in general population? You are still in solitary (the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Women’s prisons as sites of resistance: An interview with Victoria Law
by Maya Schenwar, Truthout On July 30, 2013, during the largest prisoner hunger strike in history, when 30,000 prisoners, men and women, starved themselves simultaneously to end solitary confinement,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Georgia, land of peanuts, pecans and prisons, has always been a penal colony
by Kelevin J. Stevenson Thanks for all the help you have given me in getting my story out and the story of all the comrades suffering in this slave system. Kelevin Stevenson The reason the Bay View is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Georgia DOC’s Tier II Program, extreme solitary confinement, is dehumanizing...
by Justin Sinclair Ashley I’m writing to you on behalf of myself and ALL of the other brothers who are sharing my same struggle as a captive of the Georgia Department of Oppression. Georgia is a “hate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Terrible Tier II: We are fighting for our lives
by Deron Ruffin Artist Javier Torres writes: “The art piece that I put together expresses the effects of long term solitary confinement. The man in the drawing is made of stone – not that long term...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why we’re about to see the largest prison strike in history
by Jeremy Galloway, The Influence On Sept. 9, a series of coordinated work stoppages and hunger strikes will take place at prisons across the country. Organized by a coalition of prisoner rights, labor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tier II is straight torture
by Paul Maynard First and foremost, I would like to thank God and my brother Kelevin Stevenson. If it wasn’t for my blessed brother, I would still be lost and not knowing what and who to turn to. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As a nation grapples with white supremacy, the Millions for Prisoners March...
by Jared Ware On Aug. 15, college student Takiyah Thompson, 22, climbs a ladder to put a sling around the neck of a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., so comrades with the Workers World Party could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
End the isolation of Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown)
Open Letter to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia by Concerned Academics H. Rap Brown We are academics who have spent our careers researching the history of the civil rights movement, issues of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The unofficial gag order of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): 16 years in prison,...
by Obaid H. Siddiqui At the modern intersection of Islamophobia and the Black Lives Matter movement resides Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), the now forgotten civil rights activist and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aramark is pimping the Georgia DOC
by Willie Coe Aramark’s contract with the Michigan DOC for $145 million over three years was terminated in 2015 after negative headlines proliferated in press around the state. An advocacy group,...
View Article
