prisoner rights
A labor of love for People’s World: An appeal for the incarcerated community
March 20, 2026Donations and sustainer contributions help pay for things like the weekly print edition for our readers locked away behind bars. Can you help?
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Penal colonies through history
April 18, 2025The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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In prisons across America, our people suffer in hot concrete tombs
July 25, 2023At Angola Prison in Louisiana an inmate describes his torment in an airless 100 degree tomb.
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Alabama lied: Prisoners face deadly retaliation for their strike
October 7, 2022The strike started Sept. 26 after thousands of prisoners refused to leave their dorms and cell blocks for work in mess halls, factories and trash crews.
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