Tag: prisons
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A tribute to Sandra Reed
Lee Wengraf writes this tribute to the recently deceased death penalty abolitionist, Sandra Reed. As the mother of the wrongly convicted death row prisoner Rodney Reed, Sandra spent decades both fighting for her son’s freedom while calling attention to the barbarity and racism of the U.S. criminal injustice system. Free Rodney Reed! Sandra Reed presente!
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Borders are prisons and prisons are borders
Kristen Godfrey argues that the Left must call for an end to borders and nation-states, and build solidarity among Black people and immigrants in and out of the United States to resist displacement and immobility
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Sentenced to a life of poor health
Slim Philomath explains why attempts to reform health care in U.S. prisons have been inadequate to the task, which requires an interrogation of the entire carceral system.
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Fund services, not police and prisons!
A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.
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From below and to the left
These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.