prisoner rights
California’s longest serving death-row prisoner on pain and Native identity
August 1, 2022As the Monache and Cherokee 63-year-old awaits a new hearing for a 1978 murder he denies committing, Douglas Ray Stankewitz shares the cultural tools and memories he depends on to stay alive.
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Abolition Writing: A People’s World workshop on writing to end mass incarceration
September 13, 2021September 17, 2021 - 7pm ET
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Radical perspectives on prison abolition: Town Hall set for June 12
June 9, 2021Save the date: June 12 at 3pm. Registration link in the article.
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No right to read: Profiteering corporations creep into prison libraries
December 22, 2020Exclusive-access contracts are leaving incarcerated persons and their families no choice but to pay exorbitant private company fees to access books and communicate with one another.
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San Quentin vigil says incarceration has become a death sentence
July 27, 2020The coronavirus infection spread rapidly through San Quentin. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR], as of the date of the vigil, there were 928 active cases and eleven prisoners had died.
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