"As recently as 2017, physical mail was the primary method of communication with friends and family members for those incarcerated in every prison system in the U.S"
Now, 78% of the US prisoner population no longer can receive physical mail.
www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2026/fe...
Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work
“All of those books will be only those that have been signed off by the institution…and will not spark any ideas of specifically freedom, because that is how a lot of people gain the power and energy to fight on.” - Brotha Knowledge, 44, Little Rock, recently paroled after nearly 30yrs behind bars
ARIZONA - After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.
EVERYDAY, SOMEWHERE, PRISONERS ARE FIGHTING BACK
theappeal.org/arizona-perr...
• The Richness of Life: a Stephen Jay Gould reader
• Gunning for Damascus - Patrick Higgins
• Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the CA Farmworkers Movement - Marshall Ganz
Just read the entire article aloud to 2 women incarcerated in TX. Then the phone call cut off before we could talk about the water in the women's prisons. (Prison calls are only 20 min.)
We have a guerrilla group re-installing benches at bus stops in the Bay.
sfbabc.org
Was Naomi Klein ever worth a shit?
Walnut Creek police on Thursday shot and killed a 46-year-old man who turned out to be holding a pellet gun.
white supremacy is flat circle of time,
"In 1929 [Pres. Hoover] had decided to try to 'create jobs' for white workers during the depression by removing those deemed to be 'other'... The practice continued, with...support of labour unions... until 1936."
This country has always been this racist.
LULZ
Books do not bring drugs into prison. Prison guards bring drugs into prison.
Yeah no one, NO ONE, asked for this.
"Oakland teachers union votes to authorize strike"
Power to the teachers! For the kids. For Oakland
✊✊✊!
Lowest pay in the county and 1/6 of teachers leave each year currently due to lack of support.
We'll walk the pickets too & bring em coffee and donuts like always
oaklandside.org/2026/02/23/o...
Every liberal who carried an "I am antifa" sign to a No Kings march or posted a photo on Facebook of their grandpa in uniform with "antifa" in the caption needs to be paying attention RIGHT NOW to the Prairieland Trial.
If they don't want drugs getting into prisons they're going to have to stop letting the guards in every day.
No liberation in the courts but...
"A pattern of false testimony and contradicting video evidence has led to a string of case dismissals and acquittals across multiple jurisdictions."
US federal cases against protesters crumble amid police lies
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities are taking matters into their own hands and tearing them down.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the...
"And throughout the state, prisoners are being punished anyway. They’re being punished with reduced commissary, less yard time, more shakedowns, more controlled movement, and the chow hall food has been contracted to a new company, which many prisoners say is providing smaller portions."
"February 8th came and went with the three men in solitary, and the work stoppage did not take place. Even though the work stoppage did not take place, Kinetic and Raoul remain in solitary as of this writing...."
hardtimesreviewer.substack.com/p/alabama-pr...
Oscar Grant woulda turned 40 yrs old this month.
This admin lived 3 blocks away from Fruitvale Station that NYE when Oscar was murdered. Heard the sirens in the middle of the night.
Woke up, heard the news, and hit the streets.
#FTP
Forever.
oaklandside.org/2026/02/19/o...
"...people inside are organizing to protect themselves...Be the Change, which has about 35-40 members in the prison... is fighting within the facility for the ability to ensure that LGBTQ+ people are housed safely, setting an example for prisoner organizing nationwide"
truthout.org/articles/thi...
Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories.
Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.
Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin, Frantz Fanon, Assata Shakur, and Toni Cade Bambara all noted that being sanctimonious in our political work or declarations isn’t awesome, lol.
Another thank you note, passed to an anti-ICE patroller that helps guard a Minneapolis school.
A thank you note handed out on the street to Mpls ICE patrollers.
"You did not merely observe; you acted... You are the reason hope still shines."
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"While this censorship might seem brazenly anti-constitutional to most Americans, it has been the reality faced by incarcerated individuals for decades. In the name of 'security,' prison officials have punished and even killed people for possessing literature they deemed suspect." @theintercept.com
