Alerts from PARC https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts.xml/FreeRussellMaroonShoats.shtml en 10 Year Anniversary of California Hunger Strikes celebrated at gathering https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/10-year-anniversary-california-hunger-strikes-celebrated-gathering <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/10-year-anniversary-california-hunger-strikes-celebrated-gathering"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/alerts/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-19%20at%203.21.49%20PM.png?itok=J28OoSWJ" width="200" height="310" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In his opening remarks at the symposium, Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh law professor and the lead attorney in Ashker v. Brown, highlighted the unique achievements of the case. At its core was a radical model of litigation in which the plaintiffs are front and center, formulating the agenda and strategies, rather than used by their politically savvy lawyers as the pawns for legal reforms.</p> <p>Article from <a href="http://www.solitarywatch.com">www.solitarywatch.com</a> on the gathering hosted by California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC):</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-alert-moreinfo field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Informational Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://solitarywatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CFASC_Solitary_Confinement_Symposium.pdf">https://solitarywatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CFASC_Solitary_Confinement_...</a></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:20:44 +0000 rainbow 6908 at https://www.prisonactivist.org Elders freed after decades at Pelican Bay! https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/elders-freed-after-decades-pelican-bay <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/elders-freed-after-decades-pelican-bay"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/alerts/PXL_20210816_011156123.jpg?itok=1Zvsnle-" width="200" height="200" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Two survivors of long term solitary confinement at Pelican Bay are now free!</p> <p><strong>Paul Redd,</strong> a leader of the California hunger strikes and an author of the Agreement to End Hostilites, survivor of over 25 years in solitary confinement,<br />and <strong>Paul Jones, </strong>a survivor of over 27 years in Pelican Bay SHU, are both free!</p> <p>Support these elders in building a successful transition by donating to the following funds:</p></div></div></div> Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:05:06 +0000 rainbow 6829 at https://www.prisonactivist.org Kelly Ann Savage is Free! https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/kelly-ann-savage-free <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/kelly-ann-savage-free"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/alerts/kellyannsavage.png?itok=Ka_mfu5T" width="200" height="148" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="post-meta">Nov 17, 2018</p> <p>We are absolutely thrilled to share that Kelly Savage was released from prison last week!!! </p></div></div></div> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 04:56:57 +0000 rainbow 6786 at https://www.prisonactivist.org The Genesis of Increasing Incidents of Police Brutality: The War on Drugs https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/genesis-increasing-incidents-police-brutality-war-drugs <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/genesis-increasing-incidents-police-brutality-war-drugs"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/default_images/prison-fist-default.jpg?itok=jWcIMGjn" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>What is the cause of the spiraling increase in police assaults on people whom they should help to protect --- not brutalize or kill? In just the month of March, 2015, American police killed 111 people -- more people than the police in the United Kingdom have killed since the year 1900.[1]</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-alert-moreinfo field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Informational Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2015/jun/3/genesis-increasing-incidents-police-brutality-war-drugs/">https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2015/jun/3/genesis-increasing-incidents-pol...</a></div></div></div> Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:16:51 +0000 scott 6423 at https://www.prisonactivist.org After 4 decades in solitary, Albert Woodfox's release ordered by federal judge https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/after-4-decades-solitary-albert-woodfoxs-release-ordered-federal-judge <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/after-4-decades-solitary-albert-woodfoxs-release-ordered-federal-judge"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/alerts/-a62688dd84aeadf9.jpg?itok=BuCzDhI6" width="200" height="154" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A federal judge in Baton Rouge has called for the unconditional release of Albert Woodfox, the only remaining imprisoned member of the Angola 3.</p> <p>Woodfox, 68, was placed solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and other state facilities for more than 40 years for reasons related to the 1972 murder of prison guard Brent Miller. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-alert-moreinfo field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Informational Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://media.nola.com/politics/other/A%20Crim%20Case%2034%20-%20Unconditional%20Writ%20060815.pdf">http://media.nola.com/politics/other/A%20Crim%20Case%2034%20-%20Unconditional%20...</a></div></div></div> Tue, 09 Jun 2015 01:44:33 +0000 rainbow 6422 at https://www.prisonactivist.org Facebook Now a Place for Prisoners, Too https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/facebook-now-place-prisoners-too <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/facebook-now-place-prisoners-too"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/default_images/prison-fist-default.jpg?itok=jWcIMGjn" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Civil rights advocates lobbied Facebook to stop automatically deleting all profiles of current American prisoners, The Daily Beast has learned. But the debate on whether someone is too dangerous ever to have one is still raging.<br /><br />One day at work, Larissa admitted to logging onto Facebook “to see my kids’ Easter pictures.”<br /><br />She had been put on work furlough because the Alabama Department of Corrections deemed her a low security risk. She was allowed to leave prison to work shifts at a local Burger King.<br /></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-alert-moreinfo field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Informational Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/04/facebook-now-a-place-for-prisoners-too.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/04/facebook-now-a-place-for-prison...</a></div></div></div> Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:41:18 +0000 admin 6421 at https://www.prisonactivist.org How Congress Killed One of the Few Lifelines for Former Prisoners -- And Why It's Time to Bring It Back https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/how-congress-killed-one-few-lifelines-former-prisoners-and-why-its-time-bring-it-back <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/how-congress-killed-one-few-lifelines-former-prisoners-and-why-its-time-bring-it-back"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/default_images/prison-fist-default.jpg?itok=jWcIMGjn" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Congress members are pushing to restore Pell Grants to help prisoners pay for their college education.</strong><br /> <br />By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet / June 3, 2015<br /><br />In 1965, Congress passed Title IV of the Higher Education Act, allowing prison inmates for the first time to apply for Pell Grants to finance their college educations. For decades, tens of thousands of prisoners took advantage of this benefit, using it to finance a path into opportunities after they served their sentences.<br /></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-alert-moreinfo field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Informational Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/comments/education/how-congress-killed-one-few-lifelines-former-prisoners-and-why-its-time-bring-it-back#disqus_thread">http://www.alternet.org/comments/education/how-congress-killed-one-few-lifelines...</a></div></div></div> Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:29:06 +0000 scott 6420 at https://www.prisonactivist.org Mumia Abu-Jamal in Medical Crisis https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/mumia-abu-jamal-medical-crisis <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/mumia-abu-jamal-medical-crisis"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/alerts/mumia-abu.jpg?itok=xnf5RnON" width="200" height="135" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Dateline: Intensive Care Unit Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, PA<br /> PRESS CONFERENCE AT 11AM TUESDAY MARCH 31<br /> Location: Outside Emergency Room Entrance,<br /> Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, PA<br /> 700 E Norwegian St, Pottsville, PA<br /> For information contact: Bret Grote - 412-654-9070</p> <p>Mumia Abu-Jamal in Medical Crisis - 20hrs Doctors refuse to talk to lawyers and family Vigil ICU in Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, PA. </p> <p>Literally after 20 hours of torture Mumia remains disappeared. His family and his lawyers have been prevented from receiving any information.</p> <p>On the morning of Monday March 30th, prison officials at SCI Mahanoy say that Mumia Abu-Jamal had a "medical crisis" and was transported from the prison to the intensive care unit at the Schuylkill Medical Center, in Pottsville. PA. </p> <p>Shackled to the bed, alone, and prevented from knowing that his family is close by he remains in intensive care. Prison officials and hospital officials when not spreading misinformation are denying Mumia's family access to visits, while also denying the family and his lawyers any information or records about his condition. </p> <p>Mumia's family is keeping vigil in the ICU critical care visiting room. </p> <p>His supporters and lawyers were at trial challenging the Revictimization Review Act aka the "Mumia Silencing Act" in Harrisburg, PA when they received word that he had been taken to the hospital. </p> <p>The Abolitionist Law Center's Bret Grote is in Pottsville and vigorously preparing legal action to gain access to his client for the family and access to his medical records so that independent doctors can intervene. </p> <p>Mumia Abu-Jamal’s brother Keith Cook stated “The rules that the prisons have are very arcane. They don’t give out any information about prisoners to their families or anyone else. It’s like you have your hands tied because you don’t know how the prisoner is and you have no way of talking to him. I remember a month ago--- Phil Africa exercising in the prison, next thing they know they moved him to a hospital and didn’t tell his family where he was, and three days later he was dead.</p> <p>"It’s scary. This situation needs to change. The prison authorities need to be more humane to the families of prisoners.” </p> <p>Pam Africa stated "Prison Officials are lying. Mumia is going through torture at the hands of Department of Corrections through medical neglect. It is clear to people that they want to kill Mumia. They gave him the wrong medication which made his condition worse. Inmates on the inside who questioned what was happening have been subjected to direct retaliation by the superintendent. They have been moving concerned inmates out of Mumia's unit in an effort to both bury and keep this critical information from the public." </p> <p>Johanna Fernandez of the New York Campaign to Bring Mumia Home noted “Mumia has been complaining about being ill since January. If he had gotten the proper care he needed originally, he would not be in this situation. This crisis illustrates the problem of health care in American prisons as a basic human rights violation. I am personally concerned because Phil Africa of the MOVE organization was rushed to the hospital not long ago in good health and a few days later he was dead. We need to fight to defend Mumia’s life, and that of all prisoners.”</p> <p>Bret Grote <a href="mailto:bretgrote@abolitionistlawcenter.org">bretgrote@abolitionistlawcenter.org</a> 412-654-9070<br /> Johanna Fernandez 917-930-0804 <a href="mailto:jfernandez1202@gmail.com">jfernandez1202@gmail.com</a> 917-930-0804<br /> Pam Africa 267-760-7344<br /> Keith Cook <a href="mailto:kdc52@aol.com">kdc52@aol.com</a> 919-302-4177</p> <p>The Abolitionist Law Center is a public interest law firm inspired by the struggle of political and politicized prisoners, and organized for the purpose of abolishing class and race based mass incarceration in the United States. 412-654-9070</p> <p>CALL NOW and demand that Mumia's family can visit him at the medical center: 570-773-2158</p> <p>SCI Mahanoy<br /> 301 Morea Rd, Frackville PA<br /> Superindendent John Kerestes<br /> (570) 773-2158 x8102 </p> <p>We do not trust that the prison officials will provide any transparency on Mumia's medical emergency. They indeed told us Phil Africa was fine, and he passed away the next day.</p> <p>We need you to help us demand family visitation rights at Schuylkill Medical Center NOW! </p> <p>We will send a trial update shortly.<br /> Please make the call right now: 570-773-2158 x8102</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:36:28 +0000 scott 6419 at https://www.prisonactivist.org Annual Campaign to Print the 2015 Resource Directory https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/annual-campaign-print-2015-resource-directory <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/annual-campaign-print-2015-resource-directory"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/alerts/erikruintemp.jpg?itok=lY7jR60j" width="200" height="165" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Over the past year, we were able to answer the 90+ requests we receive a week and send out over 4,500 copies of our 2014 Resource Directory to prisoners and their families all across the country.</p></div></div></div> Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:44:47 +0000 rainbow 6418 at https://www.prisonactivist.org Justice Anthony Kennedy: Solitary Confinement 'Literally Drives Men Mad https://www.prisonactivist.org/alerts/justice-anthony-kennedy-solitary-confinement-literally-drives-men-mad <div class="field field-name-field-alert-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/alerts/justice-anthony-kennedy-solitary-confinement-literally-drives-men-mad"><img src="https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/alerts/n-ANTHONY-KENNEDY-large570.jpg?itok=dNIYfJ3j" width="200" height="84" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The inmates and prison activists fighting solitary confinement have Supreme Court Justice and key <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR2007051201586.html" target="_hplink">swing vote</a> Anthony Kennedy on their side.</p> <p>While speaking before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and Federal Government on Monday, Kennedy <a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?324970-1/supreme-court-budget-fiscal-year-2016&amp;live" target="_hplink">blasted the U.S. prison system for isolating inmates</a>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-alert-moreinfo field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Informational Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/anthony-kennedy-solitary-confinement_n_6934550.html#slide=start">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/anthony-kennedy-solitary-confinement_n_...</a></div></div></div> Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:07:14 +0000 scott 6417 at https://www.prisonactivist.org